Harlem World: How Hip Hops Super Showdown Changed Music Forever

Harlem World: How Hip Hops Super Showdown Changed Music Forever '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'--]cProvided by publisher. Autor: Jonathan Mael Wydawnictwo: Johns Hopkins University Press Rok wydania: 2023 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 288 Wymiary: 16 x 23.7 x 2.7 cm Ilustracje: 12 Illustrations, black and white Język: angielski ISBN: 9781421446882