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P.A.L., May 23, 1980
Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers
Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") (Hip Hop Flyer Designer, active in the 1970s and 1980s)
Bronx, New York, New York, United States
Venue 1:
P.A.L.
123rd St. & 7th Ave.
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Cost of Admission:
Guys $4 B-4 10, Gals $3 B-4 10
Battle of the Best
Man Dip Lite
Work Type:
fliers (printed matter)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was an influential American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978.)
DJ Breakout (Early Hip Hop DJ. Member of the Funky Four Plus One.)
Funky Four Plus One (More) (Early Hip Hop group, Bronx, NY. Featured Sha-Rock, KK Rockwell, Rodney Cee, Raheim, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Breakout, DJ Baron.)
Darryl-C (Hip Hop Performer, member of the Crash Crew)
Force of the 5 MCs (Crash Crew) (Hip Hop performer, Crash Crew)
DJ Ronnie Green(Hip Hop performer)
Rayvon (Hip Hop performer (emcee), member of The Magnificent 7.)
Act II Crew (Hip Hop group from N.J. (only found on flyers, not on the web))
Hip-hop--United States
Popular culture--United States
Your hosts for the night: Mike and Dave
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Archival Collection:
Cornell University Library Hip Hop Collection (#8021)
Donated in 2007 by Johan Kugelberg
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The Cornell Hip Hop Collection features more than 500 party and event flyers ca. 1977-1984. This is the largest known institutional collection of these scarce flyers, which have become increasingly valued for the details they provide about early Hip Hop culture. Created entirely by hand, well before widespread use of design software, these flyers preserve raw data from the days when Hip Hop was primarily a live, performance-based culture in the Bronx. They contain information about early Hip Hop groups, individual MCs and DJs, promoters, venues, dress codes, admission prices, shout outs and more. Celebrated designers, such as Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") and Phase 2, made these flyers using magazine cutouts, original photographs, drawings, and dry-transfer letters.
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