In 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx.
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..
He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born .
He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks--the musical interludes between verses--longer for dancing.
Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records.
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.
A John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.
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Hill chronicles how he became DJ Kool Herc, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture.
He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks longer for dancing.
Her brother, Clive, spun the records.
In 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx
