Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years
by
Joseph C. Ewoodzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
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...