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Inside a Bronx Block Party
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Two turntables and a crate of vinyl: the instrument hip-hop was built on.
Martin Krolikowski · CC BY 2.0
Midan
Inside a Bronx Block Party
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Come into the courtyard. It is the early 1970s in the Bronx, and the party is the instrument. A DJ finds the drum passage in a record and keeps it going. Someone speaks on the mic. Someone dances. Someone writes on the wall. We will stand in each of those jobs.