Break Beats in the Bronx (eBook)

Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years

Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
256 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3276-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The origin story of hip-hopone that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronxhas become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching questions about the symbolic boundaries that have divided our understanding of the music. In Break Beats in the Bronx, Ewoodzie portrays the creative process that brought about what we now know as hip-hop and shows that the art form was a result of serendipitous events, accidents, calculated successes, and failures that, almost magically, came together. In doing so, he questions the unexamined assumptions about hip-hop's beginnings, including why there are just four traditional elementsDJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti writingand not others, why the South Bronx and not any other borough or city is considered the cradle of the form, and which artists besides Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash founded the genre. Ewoodzie answers these and many other questions about hip-hop's beginnings. Unearthing new evidence, he shows what occurred during the crucial but surprisingly underexamined years between 1975 and 1979 and argues that it was during this period that the internal logic and conventions of the scene were formed.

Autor

Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. is Malcolm O. Partin Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Davidson College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 8 figs., 1 map, 1 table, appends., notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1970s South Bronx History • African American music • Afrika Bambaataa • creation of a social entity • Creation of Music Genre • cultural responses to poverty • Cultural Sociology • Grandmaster Flash • Historical sociology • History of DJing • History of Graffitti • History of Hip Hop • Kool DJ Herc • New York City Disco • New York City History: Youth Culture • South Bronx gang culture • Symbolic boundaries • Urban decay • Urban renewal
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3276-4 / 1469632764
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3276-6 / 9781469632766