When the Beat Was Born

DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2013.

Format: Book

Edition: First edition.

Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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.

Other Authors:
Taylor, Theodore, III, illustrator.

Subjects:
DJ Kool Herc -- Juvenile literature.
Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Target Audience: AD770L

ISBN: 9781596435407 (hardcover)

Availability
Call Number	Location	Shelf Location	Status
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Main (Downtown)	Garden Level, Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Main (Downtown)	Garden Level, Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Ballentine Indoors	Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Blythewood	Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Cooper (Forest Acres)	Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	North Main	Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Sandhills Indoors	Children's Biography	In
C BIOGRAPHY Kool DJ Herc	Lower Richland	Children's Biography	Out (Due: 10/3/2023)