The Best of 2006 in World Music and Hip Hop

Critics' Week, Soundcheck's look back at the year 2006 in music, continues as Jeff Chang, hip hop journalist and author of the book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop, discusses the best of the year in hip hop. And Siddhartha Mitter, WNYC's culture reporter and a contributor to the Boston Globe, reviews the year in World Music. Finally, Chinese-American composer Tan Dun talks about his new historical opera "The First Emperor," which features Placido Domingo in the title role and which gets its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera this week.
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