Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ

by Mark Katz

Book Overview

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.

Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop was born in the streets of New York in the 1970s when a handful of teenagers started experimenting with spinning vinyl records on turntables in new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195331125
• ISBN13: 9780195331127
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"