Musician's Union: The Enduring Power of Hip-Hop, 50 Years On

“1520 Sedgwick Avenue is an address that towers over the world. The housing projects, nestled in the densely populated borough of The Bronx, New York City, should just be another nameless apartment building among many in the city that never sleeps. But, 50 years ago, its fate was changed and with it, popular culture was forever altered.

Because when DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables on 11 August 1973 to perform at his sister Cindy’s ‘Back To School Jam’ party outside of their Sedgwick home, no one foresaw the birth of a musical genre and a cultural movement worth billions of dollars in the present day. The culture we now know as hip-hop.”