Hip Hop Family Tree 1983-1985 Vols. 3-4 Gift Box Set

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Hip Hop hooray for the holidays! Get on this gift box set of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree 3 and 4! From Fantagraphics.

From the Publisher

From bestselling author and self-proclaimed hip hop nerd Ed Piskor, Hip Hop Family Tree is the entertaining, encyclopedic history of the formative years of the music genre that changed global culture. Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, each volume is cleverly presented and packaged in a style mimicking the Marvel comics of the same era. Piskor’s exuberant yet controlled cartooning takes you from the parks and rec rooms of the South Bronx to the night clubs, recording studios, and radio stations where the scene started to boom, capturing the flavor of late-1970s New York City in panels bursting with obsessively authentic detail. With a vigorous and engaging Ken Burns meets Stan Lee approach, the battles and rivalries, the technical innovations, the triumphs and failures are all thoroughly researched and lovingly depicted. Like the acclaimed hip hop documentaries Style Wars and Scratch, Hip Hop Family Tree is an essential cultural chronicle and a must for hip hop fans, pop-culture addicts, and anyone who wants to know how it went down back in the day.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2016
Edition ‏ : ‎ Box
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1606999419
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1606999417
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 1.5 x 13.6 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #628,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #291 in Fantagraphics Comics & Graphic Novels #382 in Biographies & History Graphic Novels #692 in Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels
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