Birth of a Culture
Birth of a Culture
Reception
3 reviews.
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“Offering part-autobiography and part-narrative, Flash provides a captivating insider look at the emergence and dominance of the now ubiquitous hip-hop culture that music enthusiasts will relish.”
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“While Grandmaster Flash is spare about details of his personal life, he’s mostly interested in how hip-hop grew into a global phenomenon.”
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“An episodic telling of hip-hop’s later history … He is careful not to make his accomplishments, or hip-hop itself, sound like the product of a solitary genius”
- 2026
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Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
Vinson Cunningham reviews the new book “Birth of a Culture,” in which the trailblazing d.j. tells his version of how it all began.
By Vinson Cunningham
Catalogue record
279 pages
- Pages
- 279
Full recordClose
- Pages
- 279
- Author
- Flash, Grandmaster · Jackson, Robert Scoop
- Statement
- Birth of a Culture / Grandmaster Flash and Robert Scoop Jackson.