From subways to product labels: The commercial incorporation of hip hop graffiti

Once described as a terrorist act, hip-hop graffiti has been increasingly appropriated by commercial, art, and government institutions. This article explores one aspect of its mainstreaming, the commercial, breaking with previous scholarship which has stressed the exploitative and degenerative effec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lombard, Kara-Jane
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6545