Harlem world : how hip hop's super showdown changed music forever / Jonathan Mael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mael, Jonathan, 1992- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop--New York (State)--New York--History.

Hip-hop.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

How hip hop's super showdown changed music forever

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Hip hop music is one of America's true home-grown art forms and certainly one of her most significant cultural exports, with local hip hop scenes now thriving worldwide. The birth of hip hop music is commonly dated to the release of the Sugarhill Gang's classic track "Rapper's Delight," which was the first rap song to make the Billboard Top 40 list (peaking at #36 in January 1980.) Currently, much credit goes to the Bronx for the "invention" of hip hop: the Universal Hip Hop Museum just broke ground there. This book is the untold history of how Harlem helped ignite the revolution that changed music and American culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The Crispy Crust Pizzeria

The Sound Room

Routines

New York, New York

Hip Hop's Great Poet

Harlem World

Collision Course

Tough-Ass Four Emcees

Somebody, and Anybody, and Everybody Scream

Traveling Tapes

Wild Style

Epilogue. "The Message".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781421446882

142144688X

OCLC:

1346367965