Afrika Bambaataa & Family Save The World 12"Vinyl (Electronic)

The revolution will not be televised · This digital collection contains images of selected 12" vinyl records from the collection of Afrika Bambaataa, one of Hip Hop's formative DJs. The records selected for this digital resource are those that he numbered, signed with his name, or otherwise ...

This digital collection contains images of selected 12" vinyl records from the collection of Afrika Bambaataa, one of Hip Hop's formative DJs. The records selected for this digital resource are those that he numbered, signed with his name, or otherwise annotated when he acquired them between the late 1960s and the early 1980s.

The collection offers nearly 1,400 of the earliest 12" records Bambaataa owned, representing a small subset of his famed record collection. Totaling nearly 600 cubic feet, Bambaataa's archive includes not only his music collection (more than 30,000 of his vinyl records as well as cassette tapes and CDs), but papers such as notebooks, manuscripts, scrapbooks, lyrics sheets, set lists, photographs, flyers, stage costume accessories, unique audio and video recordings, magazines, books, and other publications, as well as materials documenting the activities of the Universal Zulu Nation, the influential world-wide organization Bambaataa founded in the 1970s.

Bambaataa's early vinyl records offer essential information about Hip Hop culture’s many visual and sonic influences during its formative years.