Born in the Bronx

Born in the Bronx PDF Author: Johan Kugelberg
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Hip hop map of the Bronx on inside of dust jacket.

Born in the Bronx

Born in the Bronx PDF Author: Johan Kugelberg
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Hip hop map of the Bronx on inside of dust jacket.

Just Kids From the Bronx

Just Kids From the Bronx PDF Author: Arlene Alda
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1627790969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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"A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." —President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." —Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs—the Bronx—through some of its many success stories The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food—for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs—experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today.

When the Beat Was Born

When the Beat Was Born PDF Author: Laban Carrick Hill
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1466844795
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between verses—longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

Banned in the Bronx

Banned in the Bronx PDF Author: Gene Hutmaker
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN: 1589398416
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Book Description
Baseball fans will relive the past 50 years of America's greatest pastime through the eyes of the Yankee Hater. This book chronicles the year-by-year account of each baseball season with little or no mention of the success of the New York Yankees, but rather a highlight of their failures. This is the Yankee Hater's narration of 50+ years of baseball, life and everything in between.

Brooklyn Street Art

Brooklyn Street Art PDF Author: Jaime Rojo
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791339634
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A collection of color photographs that showcase the street art of Brooklyn, New York.

Bronx Boy

Bronx Boy PDF Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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"Still known as "Baby", although a younger brother has come along, young Charyn makes pocket money delivering eggs, belongs to a group of twelve-year-old wannabe gangsters who meet in a soda shop run by an ex-con, and spends afternoons telling stories to the adoring wife of a wealthy Russian emigre. He becomes famous for his black-and-tans - a concoction of coffee ice cream, seltzer, milk, chocolate sauce, crushed pecans, and "a touch of bitterness that may have been the Bronx". So famous, indeed, that he walks away the winner of an annual black-and-tan contest sponsored by the real-life top gangster, called "The Little Man", Meyer Lansky."--BOOK JACKET.

Out of the Bronx

Out of the Bronx PDF Author: Irene Sardanis
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 1631525409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Irene Sardanis was born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s in which fear and peril hovered. Her mother had come to New York for an arranged marriage. Her father drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women—and then, when Irene was eleven, abandoned her family altogether. Faced with their mother’s violent outbursts in the wake of this betrayal, Irene’s older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, hostage to her mother’s rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a neighbor, also Greek, who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had. But Irene wasn’t ready to let her story end there. With therapy, she eventually found the courage to leave her husband and pursue her own dreams. Out of the Bronx is her story of coming to terms with the mother and past that terrified and paralyzed her for far too long—and of how she went on to create a new life free of those fears.

Next Stop

Next Stop PDF Author: Ivan Sanchez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows Ivan Sanchez and his crew on their search for identity and an escape from poverty in a stark world where street wars and all-night symphonies of crime and drug-fueled mayhem were as routine as the number 4 train. In the game, the difference between riches and ruin was either a bullet or a lucky turn away. Almost driven insane by the poverty, despair, and senseless violence, Ivan left it all behind and moved to Virginia, but the grotesque images and voices of the dead continued to haunt him. This book honors the memories of those who died. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Next Stop shares with a whole new generation the insights and hard lessons Ivan learned.

We Used to Own the Bronx

We Used to Own the Bronx PDF Author: Eve Pell
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438424973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Book Description
An inside story of privilege, inherited wealth, and the bizarre values and customs of the American upper crust.

The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950)

The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950) PDF Author: Lloyd Ultan
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
A native Bronxite takes us back to the heyday years of the Bronx.