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When the Beat Was Born - DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Hardcover) Loot Price: R456
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When the Beat Was Born - DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Hardcover): Laban Carrick Hill

When the Beat Was Born - DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Hardcover)

Laban Carrick Hill; Illustrated by Theodore Taylor

Series: Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent

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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 came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

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Imprint: Roaring Brook Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Laban Carrick Hill
Illustrators: Theodore Taylor
Dimensions: 253 x 253 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / Picture book / With dust jacket
Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 978-1-59643-540-7
Categories: Books > Children's & Educational > The arts > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop
Books > Children's & Educational > Geography & environment > Geography > Human geography / peoples of the world > General
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
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LSN: 1-59643-540-2
Barcode: 9781596435407

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