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True to their interest in urban cultures, BOZAR and visit.brussels are presenting a major exhibition devoted to hip-hop. This genuine global phenomenon has its roots in the cultural development of large cities and the position of adolescents within these urban environments, both on the ground and in the mediasphere. Originating in a New York of the 1970s suffering the pains of dis-industrialisation, hip-hop was launched by adolescents alienated from the prevailing values of a society from which they felt excluded.
As the world has since globalised, several generations of young bruxellois …