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Oct 18, 2022 · View Kindle Edition. The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire.
Aug 11, 2023 · NYC celebrates 50 years of hip-hop, a Bronx-born phenomenon that took over the world. Grandmaster Flash, Ice-T, Salt-N-Pepa and Joey Bada$$ look back on five decades of the...
Hip-hop was the sound of a city surviving. Hearing “The Message” was what convinced Berman that the city would be alright. When he knew, as the people of New York’s toughest borough...
Jan 1, 2005 · Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture.
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Dec 27, 2005 · Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture.
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The book includes the improvisational artwork of previously unpublished street flyers of the era, Polaroids buried for decades in basements across the Bronx, and testimonials from influential figures such as Tony Tone, LA Sunshine, and Charlie Chase.
