Sean Xlg Mitchell
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 184
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The style of flashy entertainment first made routine by Motownbecame the form of Soul music that dominated throughout the 1970s.Disco changed the beat, but not the basic show business emphasis onsurface and form rather than content and meaning. At the same time, the values of "artistic expression" in Rock led to the era of superstarindulgence. Punk was the Rock music reaction to this trend and Rapwas the Black music parallel to the Punk music. It began emergingat approximately the same time, although it took much longer to bediscovered and publicized.Featuring interviews with Hip Hop legends like Kurtis Blow, Dana Dane, Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic 3, Kokane the Hook Master, Grandmaster Mele Mel, Queen Pen, Arrested Development, and the Fat Boys.