{"product_id":"b00egjfq14","title":"When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67934503960612,"sku":"YSL32368","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/81l8ONWLCIL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793247437","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b00egjfq14","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}