Hip hop timeline
Unofficial Hip Hop Timeline
Starts in 1969 with Los Angeles street dancer Don Campbell and his "Campbellock" dance and ends in 2001.
http://www.b-boys.com/hiphoptimeline.html [Oct 2004]
Wikipedia timeline of hip hop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_hip_hopRoots of hip hop
Hip hop culture, including rapping, scratching, graffiti, and breakdancing, emerged from 1970s block parties in New York City, specifically The Bronx (Toop, 1991). In the 1930s more than a fifth of Harlem residents were from the West Indies, and the block parties of the 80's were closely similar to sound systems in Jamaica (Toop, 1991). These were large parties, originally outdoors, thrown by owners of loud and expensive stereo equipment, which they could share with the community or use to compete among themselves, who began speaking lyrics or toasting. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_of_hip_hop [Mar 2006]
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