{"product_id":"from-the-bronx-on-the-birth-of-hip-hop-and-the-people-who-made-it-new-york-1973-1989-9798259019034","title":"From The Bronx: On the Birth of Hip Hop and the People Who Made It New York 1973-1989","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael McGilbourne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the Birth of Hip Hop and the People Who Made It New York 1973-1989\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery person who came before you - through plague, war, famine, and flood - lived long enough to pass forward what was necessary for you to exist. You did not begin when you were born. You began when humanity began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything that happened between that beginning and this moment is not the past in any abstract sense. \u003ci\u003eIt is the story of the making of you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes you to one of the most extraordinary moments in that story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe South Bronx, New York. 1973-1989.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe borough was burning. Seven census tracts lost 97% of their buildings in a single decade. The city was told to drop dead. And in a basement rec room, on August 11, 1973, a girl needed money for school clothes. Her brother set up two turntables.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe culture born that night is now spoken in every language on earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arguments about what hip hop is - art or commerce, Black American or global, protest or party - have never stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Bronx\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it meant to be inside that moment. Not as a record executive. Not as a critic. But as the ordinary boy - who stood against the wall at the first jam, put his name on a train at three in the morning, and one evening heard a song on the radio that said everything he had been trying to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat do you make when you are told you have nothing?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat does it cost to be the first person in the room?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat is the difference between a broken borough and a birthplace?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe facts are extraordinary enough.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc extended the drum break at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Hip hop began.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 1977 blackout put turntables into Bronx apartments overnight. The number of DJs tripled that summer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrand Wizzard Theodore invented the scratch at age twelve - when his mother told him to turn the music down.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe last graffitied train was pulled from service on May 12, 1989. The art had already moved to Paris and Tokyo.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe MTA declared the war won. The culture had already circled the earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory is not a sequence of dates. It is billions of lives lived forward into a present as urgent as your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA boy walks to the bodega for his mother's coffee. He sits on a stoop with his oldest friend and a hand-lettered flyer. That night, in a basement on Sedgwick Avenue, he hears something he has no words for yet. He will spend sixteen years finding them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey built a culture from turntables found in the trash and paint bought with lunch money. This book is the attempt of one ordinary witness to say what it felt like from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor homeschooling families: \u003c\/b\u003e You are already doing the most important thing - putting the story of humanity directly into your children's hands. The \u003ci\u003eBeyond His Story We Stand\u003c\/i\u003e series was written for you. Each book makes one moment in human history lived rather than memorised, felt rather than filed. Not a textbook. 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