When the Beat Was Born
DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Laban Carrick Hill
ISBN: | 9781596435407 |
Publisher: | Roaring Brook Press |
Published: | 27 August, 2013 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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When the Beat Was Born
DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
Laban Carrick Hill
A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaksthe musical interludes between verseslonger for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born . From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.
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