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First Wave puts hip-hop on the curriculum (The A.V. Club Madison)

When one imagines pop culture?s most common incarnation of hip-hop being squished into a ball with musical theater, it?s tough to conjure up anything realistic; Gucci Mane stumbling through Cats as Bustopher Jones with auto-tune? Horrific, right? Thankfully, the University Of Wisconsin?s First Wave program has a far different vision of the merging of those aforementioned elements, a vision that knocked us flat on our asses on several occasions in 2010.