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When the Beat Was Born

When the Beat Was Born

DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

by Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/08/2013

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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.
ISBN:
9781596435407
9781596435407
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-08-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
32
Dimensions (mm):
257x257x10mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Theodore Taylor

Theodore Taylor III is the illustrator of multiple children's books, including Shaquille O'Neal's Little Shaq series and When the Beat Was Born- DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, for which he received the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Award.

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