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Fab 5 Freddy audio and moving image collection.

Title
Fab 5 Freddy audio and moving image collection.
Author
Fab 5 Freddy, 1959-
Publication
[2014]

Details

Additional Authors
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Description
  • 1,742 audiocassettes
  • 657 videocassettes
Summary
Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite (1959- ) is an American Hip Hop artist and filmmaker. He is known for his graffiti art and for his key role in the seminal film Wild Style, bringing Hip Hop culture to the wider awareness in the United States.
Subject
  • Wild style (Motion picture)
  • African American sound recording executives and producers
  • Music videos > Production and direction
  • Rap (Music) > New York (State) > New York
  • Rap musicians > United States
  • Sound recording industry > United States
  • Music videos
  • Rap (Music)
  • Rap musicians
  • Sound recording industry
  • United States
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
  • Hip-hop (Music)
  • Music videos.
  • Sound recordings.
Note
  • The collection consists of 1,742 audio and 657 moving image recordings. These include recordings from Wild Style, episodes of Yo! MTV Raps, awards shows, interviews, performances, as well as demos, samples, DJ mixes, remixes, freestyles, radio shows, and commerical audio and video recordings of Hip Hop and jazz.
Call Number
Sc MIRS Fab 2014
OCLC
1426866256
Author
Fab 5 Freddy, 1959- creator.
Title
Fab 5 Freddy audio and moving image collection.
Production
[2014]
Type of Content
performed music
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
audio
video
Type of Carrier
audiocassette
videocassette
Added Author
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
Research Call Number
Sc MIRS Fab 2014
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