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...
Auteur principal: | |
---|---|
Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
Publié: |
The University of North Carolina Press,
2017.
|
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Sujets: | |
Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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 questions about the symbolic boundaries that have divided our understanding of the music. |
---|---|
Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781469632773 |