This document conveys a visual preview of an iBook I created as part of my graduate studies coursework at Central CT State University.

1. An eBook by Shayna Quinn
Don’t Stop the Bee Bop:
The History and Lifestyle of American Hip Hop Culture
and Its Influence on the Spoken Word

2. Track One: Hip Hop History

3. How did NYC youth change music forever?
American Hip Hop culture first emerged during the early
1970s in the South Bronx, New York City. Various factors in-
fluenced early hip hop. In the past fory years, the subculture
that has developed into a lucrative, influential, and widely-
celebrated lifestyle today.
Music influences of the genre can be traced into the late
1950s and early 60s, perhaps even back to the Harlem Ren-
aissance, but the convergence of music technologies, social
influences, and creative energy in NYC during the 1970s and
80s established the genre’s current form.
The term “hip-hop” was is said to have been coined by rap pio-
neers Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Busy Bee Starski; others
claim Fab 5 Freddy came up with the term. Like any creation
story, early hip hop has mythological aspects.

4. 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
Deemed the “birthplace of hip hop” by the NYC Housing Preservation,
1520 Sedgwick Avenue housed early hip hop parties or “jams”
hosted by DJ Kool Herc. These jams were less expensive to attend
than local discos, so young people flocked to the parties.
The parties at 1520 Sedgwick served as turning point of early hip
hop. Not a political movement, most hip hop lyrics do present social
messages. Young New Yorkers looking for a way to pass the time and
to expressed themselves, used new technologies, and influences from
their Carribbean cultures developed a brand new genre of music and
more widely, a new American subculture.
According to Jeff Chang in his book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History
of Hip Hop, the “values that have sustained hip hop from the begin-
ning [include]: inclusion, recognition, creativity, and transformation.
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5. The jam parties in the early 1970s were only part of the recipe that brewed hip hop
into fruition. Urban planning and development, Reaganomics, the crack epidemic
of the 1980s, new technologies including synthesizers, and major funding cuts to
the arts, specifically in New York City all catalyzed the creation and expansion of
hip hop music and culture.
Urban youths were simply looking for something to do and for a way to express
themselves.
“Since it’s concep-
tion in the early
1970s, hip-hop has
arguably become
more potent and effi-
cient in galvanizing
black social identity
than the civil rights
movement of the
1960s.”
-Lewis

6. Hip Hop Pioneers
Grandmaster Flash
Clive Campbell
Afrika Bambaataa
During the early, old school days of hip hop, the genre and its associated art forms cultivated from
counter culture roots. Creative youths responded to post-industrial changes among the urban land-
scapes of the late 20th century and expressed themselves through music, art, dance.

7. Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc
Campbell is credited with adapting the sound system culture from his native Jamaica
that includes bass and volume. Known best for his two-turn table system, he credits
his influences as American soul and reggae.

8. Afrika Bambaataa
Movie 1.1 “Planet Rock” Afrika Bambaataa
A child of Caribbean immigrants, Afrika Bambaataa is known for using rock,
reggae, soul, and jazz to create rap music. Once a member of a violent street
gang in the late 1970s, Bambaataa quit the gang and formed an organization for
young people. He and his contemporaries used hip hop music, dance, art and
rap battles to channel their young, aggressive, and creative energy.

9. Movie 1.2
“The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash
An immigrant from Barbados, Grandmaster Flash or Joseph Saddler, is known as a turn
table pioneer and developed the earliest mixes. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
are most well-known for their socially conscious song “The Message” meant to convey
modern, urban life in NYC during the late 197os.

10. Review 1.1 Early Hip Hop History
Check Answer
Question 3 of 3
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11. Track Two: Elements

12. ★Break-Dancing
★Deejaying or Emceeing
★Fashion
★Graffiti Art
1970s turn table photo courtesy of Google Images
What are the elements of hip hop?

13. Break Dancing
Artists dancing to the syncopated, street
rhythms of hip hop music are referred to
as b-boys or b-girls. Break dancing mixes
elements of dance, tumbling, and gymnas-
tics to wow onlookers, some artists using
linoleum or cardboard as a performance
platform.
Break dancing takes on a competitive
level in many circumstance and is thus
considered as mock urban warfare. The

14. Emceeing or Deejaying

15. Track Three:
Lyrics and The Spoken Word