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"Since 2001, the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as cultural ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknoledged and apperciated as a product of American culture. Hip ho has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building . . . reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express an heal trauma. . . explores the tensions and ambiguities in the relationship between art and the state, reveling the ethical complexities that luke behind what might seem mere goodwill tours"--Adapted from dust jacket.