The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams Groundswell Speaker 2024 Voyageur Press ISBN: 9780760352731Extent: 208

Voyageur Press ISBN: 9780760352731Extent: 208 pages

A realm long thought to be devoid of life is

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

a society of dream investigators and a minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide

The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams Groundswell Speaker 2024 Voyageur Press ISBN: 9780760352731Extent: 208The 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