When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop

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Synopsis

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.

A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner

2017 Texas Bluebonnet Award

Copyright:
2013

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
ISBN-13:
9781596435407
Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Laban Carrick Hill
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Music
Grade Levels:
First grade, Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade
Submitted By:
Amreen Ahmed
Proofread By:
N/A
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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