When the Beat Was Born

DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

Kids, People and Places, Biography, Non-Fiction, Music, Beautiful and Interesting
Cover of the book When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill, Roaring Brook Press
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Author: Laban Carrick Hill ISBN: 9781466844797
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publication: August 27, 2013
Imprint: Roaring Brook Press Language: English
Author: Laban Carrick Hill
ISBN: 9781466844797
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Publication: August 27, 2013
Imprint: Roaring Brook Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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