Title When the beat was born : DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop / Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.

Publication Info.	New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2013.
	©2013

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Edition	First edition.
Description	30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience	Elementary Grade.
	910 Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader 4.2.
	Reading Counts! 5.3.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On 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.
Audience	Ages 6-10.
Awards	Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2014
	Texas Bluebonnet award, 2016
Study Program	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning LG 4.2 0.5 160233.
Subject	DJ Kool Herc -- Juvenile literature.
	DJ Kool Herc.
	DJ Kool Herc. (OCoLC)fst01924698
	DJ Kool Herc -- Juvenile literature.
	Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Rap (Music) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Break dancing -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography.
	Rap musicians -- United States.
	Rap (Music) -- History.
	Break dancing -- History.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Music.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Music -- Rap & Hip Hop.
	Break dancing. (OCoLC)fst00838232
	Disc jockeys. (OCoLC)fst00894814
	Rap (Music) (OCoLC)fst01089951
	Rap musicians. (OCoLC)fst01089960
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Hip hop (Music) -- History.
	Picture books for children.
	Disc jockeys -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form	Picture books for children.
	Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Picture books. (OCoLC)fst01726789
	Biographies.
Added Author	Taylor, Theodore, III, illustrator.
ISBN	9781596435407 (hardcover)
	1596435402 (hardcover)
	9780605817371 (Perma Bound)
	0605817375 (Perma Bound)

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