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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Guide to the Cornell University Library Hip Hop Collection, circa 1975–1985
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08021.html
Guide to the Cornell University Library Hip Hop
Collection,
circa 1975-1985.
Collection Number: 8021
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled
by:
Gabriel
McKee
Sam Kilroy
Kugelberg
Alex Harlig
Date
completed:
August 2008
August 2008
May 2010
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle,
February 2009, June
2010
Date
modified:
Jude Corina,
October 2014
© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell University Library hip hop collection, circa 1975-1985.
Collection Number:
8021
Creator:
Quantity:
circa 25 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Audio Recordings, Memorabilia, Photographs, Printed Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The collection documents the origins of hip-hop as music, culture and community in the Bronx, NY, and its influence
on the history of music, art, performance, and activism in America during the final third of the 20th century and
beyond.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Contains nearly 1,000 recordings (primarly LP records), the photographic archive of Bronx photographer Joe Conzo, Jr.,
textile art, books and magazines, and more than 500 original party and club flyers designed by Buddy Esquire and
others. The collection documents the origins of hip-hop as music, culture and community in the Bronx, NY, and its