Bibliograph

When the beat was born, DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop, Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III

Type

Label

When the beat was born, DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop, Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When the beat was born

Oclc number

810273533

Responsibility statement

Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III

Sub title

DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop

Summary

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 breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. 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, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world

Target audience

juvenile

Classification