Wild Style: Break Dance, Scratch, Rap, Graffity Art; Hip-Hop Rap in Newyork Ghetto

Ahearn, Charlie; Grandmaster Caz; Cold Crush Brothers; Rammellzee

Published by JICC, Tokyo, 1983

About this Item

First edition. [64] pp. Staplebound booklet with plastic clamshell case containing cassette tape. Fine booklet, Near Fine case with a little rubbing and leaning to spine. Lacking obi band. Rare. A deluxe photo book to accompany the Japanese release of the classic film Wild Style, with early hip-hop soundtrack featuring first generation American hip-hop artists like Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Caz, and Rammellzee; on a dubbed generic cassette-- fairly uncommon and expensive technology at the time. The film introduced people around the world to a new style of music, which was often dismissed as a mere fad throughout the 1980s. This film's impact on Japanese youth culture in the 1980s was significant; it would spawn the robust Japanese hip-hop scene that continues to this day.

Seller Inventory # 140947563

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wild Style: Break Dance, Scratch, Rap, Graffity Art; Hip-Hop Rap in Newyork Ghetto
• Publisher: JICC, Tokyo
• Publication Date: 1983
• Edition: First edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Vinyl Records & Cassettes
  • Film
  • Music
  • African American