Laban Carrick Hill,Theodore Taylor III
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 breaksâ€”the musical interludes between versesâ€”longer for dancing.Â 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, here's howÂ Kool HercÂ came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the musicÂ he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop