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Hip-Hop: History & Business
From a Bronx back-to-school party in 1973 to the most-consumed genre in America: DJs and breakbeats, MCs, the four elements, sampling law, the regional eras, and how artists turned music into business empires.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Rock & pop; Music theory basics. Next: Electronic music. Sources: Jeff Chang's *Can't Stop Won't Stop*, Dan Charnas's *The Big Payback*, Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap, Henry Louis Gates's *Black History in Two Minutes*.Next: 1. Origins