Sing a song of drug use-abuse: Four decades of drug lyrics in popular music - From the sixties through the nineties

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 194-220

  Markert, John ^a  

^a Cumberland University   (United States)

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EID: 0035607780     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2001.tb01108.x     Document Type: Article

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