How the Early 1970s Remade the Bronx: Competing Paths in the Birth of Hip Hop
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The story of hip hop's origins is often told as a single strand: DJ Kool Herc drops a break at a Bronx party and everything that follows is inevitable. That neat line is comforting, but it flattens a far messier process of cultural invention