Yes, Yes, Y'all by Jim Fricke

Yes, Yes, Y'all by Jim Fricke

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Hip-hop today is ubiquitous, dominating not only the music industry but also popular culture around the world. This work tells its stories, tracing the music from DJ Kool Herc's first parties in 1973 through the release of "Rapper's Delight" in 1979 and the rise of the new school in the 1980s.

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Yes, Yes, Y'all by Jim Fricke

Hip-hop today is ubiquitous, dominating not only the music industry but also popular culture around the world. Like rock and roll before it, it has permanently transformed music, art, dance and fashion while capturing millions of listeners - and this vast cultural revolution was all started by a bunch of street kids in the ravaged Bronx of the 1970s. Documenting hip-hop's remarkable genesis, this book tells its stories in voices that bristle with vitality, character, humour and menace, tracing the music from DJ Kool Herc's first parties in 1973 through the release of "Rapper's Delight" in 1979 and the rise of the new school in the mid 1980s. Fricke and Ahearn weave an electric narrative from the accounts of over 50 of hip-hop's founders and stars, old school and new, including Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, Melle Mel, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Caz, Rahiem, Fab 5 Freddy, Tony Tone and DMC. A wealth of previously unseen photographs, flyers and posters illustrate the text. This work is a chorus of voices, a tale of artistry in the face of extraordinary adversity, and the definitive history of a revolution created with nothing more than a microphone, a turntable and a dance floor.
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ISBN 13 9780306812248
ISBN 10 030681224X
Title Yes, Yes, Y'all
Author Jim Fricke
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hachette Books
Year published 2002-10-24
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.