Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

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David Bowie was always a poetic songwriter, but even he had to bow down to the revolutionary brilliance of a poet like Linton Kwesi Johnson during the 1970s.

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The 1976 one-hit wonder "Afternoon Delight" helped inform an equally kitschy vocal pop group in the following decade.

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Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.