Born in the Bronx
Subtitle: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
By: Edited by Johan Kugelberg
Contributors: Afrika Bambaataa (Foreword); Buddy Esquire (Contributor); Jeff Chang (Contributor); Joe Conzo (Photographer)
Publisher: Universe; Rizzoli
Published: November 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780789315403
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Rap & hip-hop; Black Musicians And Their Music; Popular Music; Music; Music/Songbooks; New York; Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop; History & Criticism - General; Music / Rap; Reference
Description: Hip hop first became a part of the mainstream music industry in the early 1980s, but the true origins of one of the most powerful pop-cultural influences of the twentieth century are in the spontaneous and progressive musical culture that grew out of tough Bronx neighborhoods of the 1970s." "Writer and curator Johan Kugelberg has pulled together the scattered remains of a movement that never had its eye on posterity. The book includes a foreword by legendary DJ and Bronx activist Afrika Bambaataa, a hip hop timeline by best-selling author Jeff Chang, the improvisational flyer artwork of Buddy Esquire, Polaroid photographs buried for decades in basements across the Bronx, and personal contributions from influential figures such as Grandmaster Cas, LA Sunshine, JDL, Mare 139, and Grandwizzard Theodore.