The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams Groundswell Speaker 2024 With a foreword by Adam

With a foreword by Adam Frost and complemented with hand-drawn illustrations

EburyISBN: 9780571362905Extent: 240 pages

Daunt BooksISBN: 9781911547600Extent: 120 pages

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The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams Groundswell Speaker 2024 With a foreword by AdamThe music that would come to be known as hip hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, its the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artistsnearly all of them people of colour from some of Americas most overlooked communitiespushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers, while transfixing the countrys youth and