From South Bronx Block Parties To The Black Power Movement, Hip Hop Has Changed a Lot!
African, Caribbean, and Hispanic adolescents in the Bronx in the 1970s were instrumental in the development of hip-hop as a musical and cultural genre. On August 11, 1973, a back-to-school celebration had DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican American DJ who played strong funk by artists including James Brown. Then he did something different: he spliced … Read more