Scope and content

Contains newspaper and magazine clippings, art work, hip-hop flyers, photographs, materials documenting the activities of Rock Steady Crew, books, catalogs, posters, awards, and other ephemera. The collection also includes video documentation of dance and related hip-hop events.

Scope and content The Johan Kugelberg hip hop 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. The collection contains nearly 1,000 recordings (primarily LP records), textile art, books and magazines, and more than 500 original party and club flyers designed by Buddy Esquire and others. It also includes 74 candid hip hop photos...

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Posters, flyers, news clippings, programs and other ephemera documenting the life and work of Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon. Materials document his life as a b-boy and active participant in hip hop culture from the early 1980s onward. Included in the collection are video tapes of rehearsals and performances, along with a black book of art work begun in 1981 while Fabel was in High School.