Boombox, used by Fab 5 Freddy
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: Sharp
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This boombox was made by Sharp Electronics, circa 1985. It is a portable music system, model HK-9000, with its dual tape decks, detachable speakers, built-in equalizer, AM/FM radio, and 2-fader microphone mixing was one of the largest boomboxes of the era.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This boombox was used by hip hop pioneer, visual artist, filmmaker, and cable television host, Fab 5 Freddy, (born Fred Braithwaite). He was the first host of the groundbreaking hip hop music video show, "Yo! MTV Raps," in the late 1980s . Freddy has been forever immortalized on the American New Wave group Blondie’s hit single “Rapture,” when lead singer Debbie Harry rapped, “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly.”</p>
topic: label: Subject
content: Hip-Hop
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
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content: Electronic Musical Instruments
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Fred (Fab 5 Freddy) Brathwaite
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0059.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0059
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0059.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boombox
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: non-ferrous metal, eletrical wire (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 34 in x 9 in; 29.21 cm x 86.36 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 33 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 29.845 cm x 85.725 cm x 26.035 cm