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Old School Rap and Hip-Hop Chris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 By Tim Lawrence

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Don Shirley Trio Don Shirley Trio (1960)Cadence

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The Manual: Ministry Of Sound by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton Headline

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Rap Attack 2 African Rap To Global Hip Hop by David Toop Serpent's Tail (1991)

The roots of rap music are traced from video arcades to bebop, and crucial influences such as prison and army songs, West African chants and tap dancing...

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Back In The Days Photographs By Jamel Shabazz powerHouse Books

Amazing, genius photographs of New York hip-hop fashion and culture taken by Jamel Shabazz between 1980 and 1989. Intro by Fab Five Freddy. As stylish...

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Ras Ranger Message In The Music Room In The Sky

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Jazz Religion, The Second Line And Black New Orleans By Richard Brent Turner Indiana University Press

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