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Summary:

Hip hop first became a part of the mainstream music industry in the early 1980s, but the true origins of one of the most powerful pop-cultural influences of the twentieth century are in the spontaneous and progressive musical culture that grew out of tough Bronx neighborhoods of the 1970s." "Writer and curator Johan Kugelberg has pulled together the scattered remains of a movement that never had its eye on posterity. The book includes a foreword by legendary DJ and Bronx activist Afrika Bambaataa, a hip hop timeline by best-selling author Jeff Chang, the improvisational flyer artwork of Buddy Esquire, Polaroid photographs buried for decades in basements across the Bronx, and personal contributions from influential figures such as Grandmaster Cas, LA Sunshine, JDL, Mare 139, and Grandwizzard Theodore.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Bronx
• Timeline / Jeff Chang
• The ephemeral beauty of hip hop flyers
• Playlists and rhymes
• The humble beginnings of hip hop on wax
• A lost time : Joe Conzo
• Born in the Bronx : JDL
• Casanova Fly : an interview with Grandmaster Caz
• We destroyed that place : LA Sunshine
• Scratch creator : Grandwizzard Theodore
• An interview with Buddy Esquire
• A picture is worth a thousand words : Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon
• What you write? / Carlos MARE139 Rodriguez
• The land before the rhyme : DJ Disco Wiz.

Contributors:

Kugelberg, Johan

Conzo, Joe, Jr.

Afrika Bambaataa, 1957-

Photography Study Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Hip-hop

Hip-hop — United States — History and criticism

Hip-hop — United States — Pictorial works

Rap (Music) — History and criticism

Photographs

Rap (Music)

United States

Genres:

Rap (Music)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Pictorial works

General Notes:

Hip hop map of the Bronx on inside of dust jacket.
Purchase; 2021.
Bound in publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards. Retains original illustrated dust jacket.
Inscription opposite half-title page: "To / Mike / Thanks for all / the support / Joe Conzo / 07' "; Inscribed on half-title page: "Michael, / Too Rad ... / Too Rad! / Johan Kugelberg / upon the date of / publication / 11/9/07"

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

ML3531 .B66 2007

ISBNs:

9780789315403
0789315408

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007924996

OCLC Numbers:

144226842