How did this happen? The most dominant cultural form turned out to be the most depraved ever produced in this country or anywhere else. Researchers have discovered that the hip-hop cultural form outpaced the Beatles in its pervasive and omnipresent influence upon American culture. Their study looked at differences in chords, rhythms, and tonal properties over 50 years of top chart hits. This brings up the more important question: how does one “redeem” cultural forms including the middle finger, hip-hop, the Nazi swastika, and the playboy bunny?

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