Hip Hop: The Complete Archives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503281585)

"Extremely well-written" --Dave Marsh...."The best and most reliable history" --Robert Palmer...."Thrilling, intricate story" --Greil Marcus...."Hager is an ace reporter" --Robert Chrisgau...."Formidable job of reporting" --Ken Tucker...."It's impressive" --David Hinckley..."Hits home with little known facts" --Nelson George...."Best read on the subject" -- James Marshall....just a sample of reviews on Hip Hop by Steven Hager when it first came out in 1984, which disappeared quickly and sold for $500 and got bootlegged all over the place. But now you can get that original story, updated, annotated, filled with new details and new never-seen photographs, and it includes most everything Hager ever wrote on the subject.Steven Hager was the first professional journalist to travel to the South Bronx in order to document the origins of hip hop. For the first time, all his groundbreaking journalism and book, as well as his original film script have been collected into one edition.

Author: Steven Hager
ISBN-10: 1503281582
ISBN-13: 9781503281585
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2014
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68d