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Breaks in the Air - The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City (Hardcover)
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Breaks in the Air - The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City (Hardcover)
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In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence
on New York City's airwaves by examining how artists and
broadcasters adapted hip hop's performance culture to radio.
Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by
buying time on low-bandwidth community stations and building new
communities around their shows. Later, stations owned by New York's
African American elite, such as WBLS, reluctantly began airing rap
even as they pursued a sound rooted in respectability, urban
sophistication, and polish. At the same time, large commercial
stations like WRKS programmed rap once it became clear that the
music attracted a demographic that was valuable to advertisers.
Moving between intimate portraits of single radio shows and broader
examinations of the legal, financial, cultural, and political
forces that indelibly shaped the sound of rap radio, Klaess shows
how early rap radio provides a lens through which to better
understand the development of rap music as well as the intertwined
histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal
formations that converged in the post-Civil Rights era.
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