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Break Beats in the Bronx : Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years /

The origin story of hip-hop - one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx - has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching quest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ewoodzie, Joseph C., Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The beginnings of a boundary
  • Herc: the new cool in the Bronx
  • South Bronx DJs vs. other DJs
  • The development of an internal logic
  • Creating conventions
  • Crews and outside influences
  • Symbolic capital in the new entity
  • Race, gender, and the pursuit of recognition
  • MCs take the stage.