{"id":13975,"date":"2015-09-02T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:01:12","slug":"hip-hop-family-tree-book-3-1983-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2015\/09\/02\/hip-hop-family-tree-book-3-1983-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Ed Piskor<\/strong> (Fantagraphics)
\nISBN: 978-1-60699-848-9<\/p>\n

Another year gone and at long last another spectacularly barnstorming, award-winning comicstrip history lesson from proudly self-confessed Hip Hop Nerd and cyber-geek Ed Piskor is here, detailing more secrets about the world’s most explosive musical discipline.<\/p>\n

In astounding detail and with a positively chillin’ attention to the art styles of the period, Piskor resumes his astoundingly engaging exploration of the rise of the rhyme-&-rhythm musical art form – all whilst paying equal attention to the symbiotic and parallel growth of graffiti and street art – with wit, charm and astonishing clarity.<\/p>\n

Kicking off with a crucial ‘Rogues Gallery’<\/em> of the 80 movers and shakers involved, this latest blockbuster-sized volume begins in 1983 after Hip Hop at last makes the leap from local parks and parties to the club scene and onto vinyl. It also sees the street wisdom that Rap doesn’t work on albums finally disproved forever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Of course now that the strange noise and weirdly evocative dance moves are a proven commodity, the establishment business sharks begin to circle the pioneering proponents and all their hundreds of hungry wannabe, would-be stars\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

‘The Freaks Come Out at Night of the Living Bassheads’ <\/em>closely studies that inexorable rise, following a few key behind-the scenes-personalities like in-at-the-start devotee Russell \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rush\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Simmons, fanatical white-boy Rick Rubin and miracle-working Swiss opportunist Charlie Stettler whose tireless efforts are slowly eclipsed as the movement goes global, tracking the tenuous migration to television via shows such as Graffiti Rock<\/em> <\/strong>and documentaries Style Wars<\/strong><\/em> and Breakin’ and Enterin’<\/strong><\/em> until even whites Rock-only MTV finally capitulates \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Filled with feuds, mash-ups and team-ups of the new talents, highlighting Rubin and Simmons unification as Def Jam<\/strong> and focussing closely on British support from landmark books such as Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Street Art<\/strong>, this titanic tome covers the start of the careers of Whodini<\/strong>, The Fat Boys<\/strong>, Slick Rick<\/strong>, LL Cool J<\/strong> and Doug E Fresh<\/strong>, sees The Beastie Boys<\/strong> adopt rap as their metier and follows Run DMC<\/strong>‘s unstoppable rise.<\/p>\n

As always the technical and stylistic innovations, musical struggles and physical battles, management shenanigans and recording landmarks are all encyclopaedically yet engaging revealed as Piskor connects a bewildering number of strands and weaves them into the coolest of tapestries \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

To Be Continued\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Produced in the tone and style of those halcyon, grimily urban times and manufactured to look just like an old Marvel Treasury Edition<\/u><\/a> (a tabloid sized 334 x 234 mm -reprint format from the 1970s which offered classic tales on huge and mouth-wateringly enticing pulp-paper pages), this compelling confection also includes a copious and erudite ‘Bibliography’<\/em>, ‘Reference’<\/em> and ‘Funky Index’<\/em>, a fun-filled Author Bio and another blazing collection of ‘Pin Ups’<\/em> with spectacular images from guest illustrators including TLC<\/strong> by Natalie Andrewson, Biz Markie<\/strong> by Miss Lasko Gross, Kool Moe Dee<\/strong> by Jonny Negron, Kool DJ Red Alert<\/strong> by Toby Cypress, Blowfly<\/strong> by Johnny Ryan, Jay Z<\/strong> by Jim Rugg, Wu Tang Clan<\/strong> by Benjamin Marra, Mantronix<\/strong> by Dean Haspiel, Dr. Dre<\/strong> by Jenny Goldstick, MC Hammer<\/strong> by Robert Crumb and Digital Underground<\/strong> by Skottie Young to get your pulses racing, if not your toes tapping\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Informative and irresistible, Hip Hop Family Tree<\/strong> is wild fun and deliciously addictive – and only a year until the next one\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nThis edition \u00c2\u00a9 2015 Fantagraphics Books. All Hip Hop comic strips by Ed Piskor \u00c2\u00a9 2015 Ed Piskor. Pin ups and other material \u00c2\u00a9 2015 their respective artists. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) ISBN: 978-1-60699-848-9 Another year gone and at long last another spectacularly barnstorming, award-winning comicstrip history lesson from proudly self-confessed Hip Hop Nerd and cyber-geek Ed Piskor is here, detailing more secrets about the world’s most explosive musical discipline. In astounding detail and with a positively chillin’ attention to the art styles … <\/p>\n

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