The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip-Hop

by David Toop, Patricia Bates, Photography

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston: South End Press, 1984. First edition. 168 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good+ with slightly bumped corners, light wear. An early history of hip-hop culture and music in America, photo-illustrated in black-and-white. Among the book's strengths, Toop covers a lot of the DJ culture of the late '60s and '70s that other, later hip-hop histories have glossed over, as well as continuities between the

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