Trobar and Rap: Guilhem de Peiteus (William IX) & Shawn Carter (Jay-Z)
Submitted by Patrick Kozey on Tue, 01/07/2014 - 00:00
<a href="Off-site">http://stanford.edu/group/troubadours/projects/pkozey/">Off-site project here</a>
What could be further apart than Poitiers in 1071 and Brooklyn in 1969? A lot, it turns out. The distance—in language, time, and place—is vast, sure, but both moments gave birth to figures with much more in common than might be expected...
