Title Breaks in the air : the birth of rap radio in New York City / John Klaess

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) Contents Deregulating radio -- Sounding Black progress in the post-civil rights era -- Commercializing rap with Mr. Magic's Rap attack -- Programming the street at WRKS -- Broadcasting the Zulu Nation -- Listening to the labor of the Awesome 2 Show Summary "Breaks in the Air provides a social and cultural history of rap music on Black radio in New York City from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Radio shows were crucial in the growth of hip hop in New York, and Klaess explores the intertwined histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal formations converging in that post-Civil Rights period. John Klaess offers a careful analysis of the city's three crucial commercial radio stations-WBLS-FM 107.5, WRKS-FM 98.7, and WHBI-FM 105.9-drawing on an archive of tape recordings of the stations' broadcasts. Klaess moves from a history of deregulation in the broadcasting industry to the ways that American racial politics inflected the broadcast of rap and looks at how these radio stations engaged with this unique historical situation, how technologies both aided and limited their broadcasts, how their broadcasts were received, and what the public broadcast of this music and culture meant to young people of color in New York."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-214) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Rap (Music) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism African American radio stations -- New York (State) -- New York Radio stations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Radio broadcasting -- Deregulation -- New York (State) -- New York Radio in popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop. Rap (Music) Radio stations Radio in popular culture Radio broadcasting -- Deregulation African American radio stations New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781478023500 1478023503

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