Because you watched The Get Down…

October 15, 2016

Shining a light on disco and hip-hop with the Netflix original series The Get Down!

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If you’ve already burned through the first six episodes of Netflix’s disco hip-hop mashup series The Get Down, continue your time travel with these accounts and retellings:

To Disco, with Love: The Records that Defined an Era

By Hamsley, David.

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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco

By Shapiro, Peter.

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Hip Hop Family Tree: 1, 1970s-1981

By Piskor, Ed.

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Yes, Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-hop's First Decade

By Ahearn, Charlie.

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Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generation

By Chang, Jeff.

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The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries

By Broughton, Frank.

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Sample This: The Birth of Hip-hop

By Forrer, Dan. Burris, Bob.

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Fresh Dressed

By Jenkins, Sacha.

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