The University Of North Carolina Press
The origin story of hip-hopone that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronxhas 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.
290.20 Lei
