Prep

• Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, ‘Hip-Hop: Planet Rock’, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (Grove Press, 2006)
• Video: Grandmaster Flash, ‘A Letter to Kool Herc from Grandmaster Flash’ (14 August 2017). Who was the first to introduce looping to the turntables? Flash claims the honour, and demonstrates on the ones and twos why what Herc did was not ‘looping’, but ‘repeating’. Some context is wryly provided by this YouTuber, and Rob Swift (X-ecutioners) elaborates to his students in this video. 

In Class

1. Attendance
2. TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Jeff Chang, ‘Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
• Video: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1982). We’ll watch this movie in class, but I encourage you to look at it a few times. You can view this movie for free using the hyperlink in the title.