Hip-Hop Is HistoryQuestlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, unpicks one hip hop song from each of the years since the sound of breakbeat drums first burst out of a house party in the Bronx on 11 August 1973. Clive Campbell, a Jamaican born teenager threw the party. Questlove wants to talk about the present. In this book, he analyses the conditions of each song's creation, its lyrical and musical content, and its role in pushing the genre

From humble beginnings

places and ideas that shaped his vision

some home only to wildlife

a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away

A hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end

as a young boy Marc found solace and safety in his small back garden

the Mediterranean and the Middle East

But nothing can prepare him for the truth

As each woman puts herself at risk

Tracked by GPS

Julian Jackson uses Pétain's three-week trial as a lens through which to examine the central crisis of twentieth-century French history

becomes a YouTube star