Author:
Hill, Laban Carrick. Taylor, Theodore, III, ill.
ISBN:
9781596435407
Summary:
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 breaks the musical interludes between verses longer 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 ca
Pub Date:
2013
Call Number
EB KOO 2013
Format
Books
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