Brian Williams, Kool Herc, and the origins of hip-hop

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William S. Burroughs sells Nike Air Max CM, 1994

late 1960s psychedelic Pepsi ad

(see Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool)

VW ad: "Mr. Jones and Mr. Krempler"

from Doyle Dane Bernbach

New York City's 1975 Fiscal Crisis: template for neoliberalism, and a precipitant of hip-hop

Initially, the crisis was portrayed as a local story, a reflection of New York and its “mongrel” population, liberal social policies, profligate spending, and powerful unions. But the means of its resolution became a template for the imposition of neoliberal policies around the world. Ruling elites took seriously the call to “think globally, act locally,” making a municipal finance problem into an event of world significance.

Read on, in Jacobin.