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Break Beats in the Bronx - Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years (Hardcover)
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Break Beats in the Bronx - Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years (Hardcover)
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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. In
Break Beats in the Bronx, Ewoodzie portrays the creative process
that brought about what we now know as hip-hop and shows that the
art form was a result of serendipitous events, accidents,
calculated successes, and failures that, almost magically, came
together. In doing so, he questions the unexamined assumptions
about hip-hop's beginnings, including why there are just four
traditional elements-DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti
writing-and not others, why the South Bronx and not any other
borough or city is considered the cradle of the form, and which
artists besides Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash
founded the genre. Ewoodzie answers these and many other questions
about hip-hop's beginnings. Unearthing new evidence, he shows what
occurred during the crucial but surprisingly underexamined years
between 1975 and 1979 and argues that it was during this period
that the internal logic and conventions of the scene were formed.
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