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Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop´s Early Years
Jr. Joseph C. Ewoodzie
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 halftones, 12 figs., 5 maps. BIC Classification: AVGR; JFSL; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469632759
SKU
V9781469632759
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About Jr. Joseph C. Ewoodzie
Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr is Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Davidson College.
Reviews for Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop´s Early Years
Ewoodzie uses new data, evidence, and collected interviews in combination with a fresh pair of eyes to distill and analyze. He then blends it with forthright prose, clear explanations, and vivacious photographs to create a history that may present as academic, but doesn't read that way.
IndiePicks Magazine An excellent balancing act of writing an academic text and still making the ... Read more
IndiePicks Magazine An excellent balancing act of writing an academic text and still making the ... Read more