The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk (BBC4)
Posted by: SteveGa on 24 February 2007
Monday 5th March 2007, 21:00 to 22:00
How the squalid streets of 70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world - punk, disco and hip hop. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, a new wave of 'punk' rock emerged in lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, downtown loft parties heralded the birth of disco, which would eventually spawn the ultimate club for the privileged few: Studio 54. But the swanky mid-town discos were out of bounds to black New York, so in the Bronx DJs created their own parties, heralding the birth of hip hop.
How the squalid streets of 70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world - punk, disco and hip hop. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, a new wave of 'punk' rock emerged in lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, downtown loft parties heralded the birth of disco, which would eventually spawn the ultimate club for the privileged few: Studio 54. But the swanky mid-town discos were out of bounds to black New York, so in the Bronx DJs created their own parties, heralding the birth of hip hop.
