Cornell University Library Digital Collections

Johnny's Basement, Feb. 15, 1980

Title:
Johnny's Basement, Feb. 15, 1980
Collection:
Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers
Creator:
Ariel Monroy
Date:
1980-02-15
Location:
Bronx, New York, New York, United States (borough)
Country:
United States
Coordinates:
40.852552,-73.884011
Latitude:
40.852552
Longitude:
-73.884011
Venue 1:
Johnny's Basement
Address 1:
2320 Crotona Ave.
Identifier:
HHC8021_0122
Event Name:
Spaced-Out Throw-Down Valentine Dance!
Work Type:
fliers (printed matter)
Subject:
Hip-hop--United States
Popular culture--United States
Rap (Music)
Disc jockeys
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Provenance:
Donated in 2007 by Johan Kugelberg
Rights:
The images on our web site are made available for non-profit, educational use. Higher resolution versions of the images may be requested by contacting hiphopcollection@cornell.edu. Although Cornell University Library is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (17 U.S.C.) on the flyers and other materials made available on this site (unless otherwise indicated) permission and possible fees may be required from the owners of any copyright independently of the Library. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in this collection. Researchers must make their own assessments of rights in light of their intended use.
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About the collection

The Cornell Hip Hop Collection features more than 500 party and event flyers ca. 1977-1984. This is the largest known institutional collection of these scarce flyers, which have become increasingly valued for the details they provide about early Hip Hop culture. Created entirely by hand, well before widespread use of design software, these flyers preserve raw data from the days when Hip Hop was primarily a live, performance-based culture in the Bronx. They contain information about early Hip Hop groups, individual MCs and DJs, promoters, venues, dress codes, admission prices, shout outs and more. Celebrated designers, such as Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") and Phase 2, made these flyers using magazine cutouts, original photographs, drawings, and dry-transfer letters.