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Author:

Mael, Jonathan, 1992- author.

Title:

Harlem world : how hip hop's super showdown changed music forever / Jonathan Mael.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Rap (Music)--New York--New York--History and criticism.
Hip-hop--New York--New York--History.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. The Crispy Crust Pizzeria -- The Sound Room -- Routines -- New York, New York -- Hip Hop's Great Poet -- Harlem World -- Collision Course -- Tough-Ass Four Emcees -- Somebody, and Anybody, and Everybody Scream -- Traveling Tapes -- Wild Style -- Epilogue. "The Message".

Summary:

"Hip hop music is one of America's true home-grown art forms and certainly one of her most significant cultural exports, with local hip hop scenes now thriving worldwide. The birth of hip hop music is commonly dated to the release of the Sugarhill Gang's classic track "Rapper's Delight," which was the first rap song to make the Billboard Top 40 list (peaking at #36 in January 1980.) Currently, much credit goes to the Bronx for the "invention" of hip hop: the Universal Hip Hop Museum just broke ground there. This book is the untold history of how Harlem helped ignite the revolution that changed music and American culture"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

142144688X
9781421446882

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1346367965

LCCN:

2022046755

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)