When the beat was born : DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop / Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.
Record details
- ISBN: 1596435402 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781596435407 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations 26 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, Elementary, 2018. |
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Subject: | Kool DJ Herc > Juvenile literature. Rap musicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Disc jockeys > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. |
Genre: | Picture books for children. |
Available copies
- 56 of 57 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 57 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | J 92 KOOL (Text) | 32518138261659 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | JB KOOL DJ HERC Hil (Text) | 33110140751635 | Juvenile Nutmeg | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | J B KOO HIL (Text) | 33120131282524 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | jB HERC, DJ. (Text) | 32544072459117 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | JE B HERC (Text) | 34030130856294 | Juvenile Easy Reader Biography | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | JE B HERC (Text) | 34030130856302 | Juvenile Easy Reader Biography | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | JE B HERC (Text) | 34030130856310 | Juvenile Easy Reader Biography | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | JNF 782.42 HIL (Text) | 33260000198920 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | J 921/DJ KOOL (Text) | 34029140299560 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | jB KOOL DJ HERC (Text) | 34000076344845 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
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