When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

$15.19

Hardcover
Publish Date: August 2013
Language: English
Reading Level: 4.2
EAN: 9781596435407

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Overview

A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner

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.

Details

Pages: 32
Dimensions: 10.1 x 10.1 x 0.38 in
Lexile Score: 770
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 1596435402

Awards

2016 Bluebonnet Awards - Nominee (Children's)
2016 Garden State Children's Book Awards - Nominee (Nonfiction)
2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended (Seven to Ten)
2014 Coretta Scott King Award - Winner (New Talent/Illustrator)