The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams

The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

Jonathan Abrams

544 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative medium-paced
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The 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, it's the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip-hop and...

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