"Nickel Boys," adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer winning novel, is gripping and urgent and topical — even though it's set mostly in the 1960s — and director RaMell Ross' stroke of genius was ...
For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...