Founding fathers

Working History of Hip Hop

By briannadelrosal

  • Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Black Moses) born

  • Louis Armstrong is born

  • Rash of heroin addictions in South Bronx clear

  • Black Moses founded United Negro Improvement Association

  • the Charleston

    http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/qt/charleston.htm

  • DJing in Kingston

    Produced the Jamaican sound

  • Afrika Bambaataa (Kevin Donovan) born

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War soldiers come home

  • Malcom X's "House Negro Field" speech

  • MLKjr's "I Have A Dream" speech

  • James Brown and Funk

  • Period: to

    Grandmaster Flowers DJs in Brooklyn

    http://hip-hop-music.wikia.com/wiki/Grandmaster_Flowers Grandmaster Flowers began at 243 Club
  • Period: to

    King Charles came to Queens to get a sound system

    He was the first to have crown amps and the Macintosh system

  • Grandmaster Flash

  • DJ Hollywood: 1st Successful Call and Response

  • Period: to

    KC and the Prince of Soul (Pete DJ Jones' MC)

  • Period: to

    Disco Twins (first trickers on the tables)

  • Pete DJ Jones wins DJ of the Year

  • Mayor Jon Lindsey backlashed graffiti,

    Lindsey outlawed some markers and aerosol to prevent graffiti. He used an expensive chemical to cover-up the writing (lead to sickness and death)

  • Nu Sounds group out to Queens

  • Pete DJ Jones, Maboya, Smith Brothers, The Plummer

  • Pete DJ Jones wins DJ of the Year

  • Lee "Scratch" Perry - Black Ark, backyard studio in Kingston owner, playing/looping songs

  • Disco becomes the New Trend

    TV show, Soul Train, popularized Disco

  • "Love is the Message" MFSB

  • Period: to

    30,000 fires in the South Bronx

  • 1520 Sedgwick Ave recreation room"back to school party"

    Hip Hop was born!

  • Movie "Earthquake" came out, boasted on this new technology revolving around speakers.

    Term: Earthquake speakers came to be

  • Freebase created in San Fransisco

  • Michael Goody went to see Nu Sounds at 127 Park

    Goody was impressed and created Infinity Machine

  • Afrika Bambaataa created Soul Sonic Force

  • Year of the Discto by The Advocate

  • 70s "Black Pop" (Motown groove, Aretha, Folks, James Brown, R&B/political)

  • Bronx divided into new grid

    DJ Kool Herc lost popularity

  • Baseball League in South Bronx

  • All Star Bronx B-Boys (Rock Steady Crew)

  • Infinity Machine became active

  • 84 King Street Garage, to later become the Paradise Garage opens

    first dance floor in a club, needed a membership
    MEMBERS ONLY

  • King Tim III (Personality Jock) by Fatback Band

  • Richard Pryor, black comedian had an explosive accident in freebase experiment

  • Period: to

    EVOLUTION

  • Period: to

    Disco disappeared from mainstream

  • Period: to

    House Goes to Europe

  • Kurtis Blow

  • Planet Rock- Afrika Bambaataa

  • Westward Expansion of Hip Hop/Rap

  • Period: to

    Discotheque clubs-underground music

  • Period: to

    Depression of South Africa

    Relatable to America's Great Depression in the 30s

  • Michael Stewart arrested for grafitti, beaten by cops

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/tag-dead-article-1.1456286

  • Houdini

  • 6 officers a part of Michael Stewart case are acquitted of all charges

  • Period: to

    DJ Steve "Robocop" Dee created juggling

  • Paradise Garage closes

  • Marlon "MarleyMarl" Williams DJ discovered the snare snap

  • Black on black violence increased (youth vs civil rights generation)

  • Period: to

    "Quality of Life Laws", clubs were unlawful and immora

    Colonize the marginalized
    (Drug sales, mics, loud music were criminal)

  • Grandmaster Flowers dies

  • Golden Age of House died

  • Larry Levan dies

  • Snoop and Dre