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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

Hill, Laban Carrick
Taylor, Theodore

Hardcover

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

BiographyPerforming Arts

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1596435402
ISBN13: 9781596435407
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: Aug 27 2013
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.38 Width: 10.10 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
Awards: Bluebonnet Awards, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Coretta Scott King Award, Garden State Children's Book Awards

A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner

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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