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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC THE POETS OF DUISBURG: RISK AND HIP-HOP PERFORMANCE IN A GERMAN INNER CITY By MARGARET RUTH JACKSON A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2010 The members of the committee approve the dissertation of Margaret Ruth Jackson defended on April 21, 2010. ______________________________ Michael B. Bakan Professor Directing Dissertation ______________________________ Birgit Maier-Katkin University Representative ______________________________ Frank Gunderson Committee Member ______________________________ Denise Von Glahn Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are many to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for supporting, encouraging, and contributing to this work. First, I thank both the American Association of University Women and the Deutsch Akademischer Austauchdienst for their generous support of my research. My gratitude also extends to the staffs of the Center for Turkish Studies in Essen, Germany, and the Institut für Jugendforschung (Institute for Youth Research) in Munich, Germany who generously shared their research and time with me. My love of Germany, its people, and its many musics is grounded in my friendships with Barbara Gern, Peter Schridde, and Cajus Bayer. I am grateful for the kindness and cultural insights you have shared with me for the past seventeen years.