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Beat Street: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Volume 1
Performing artist
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Performing artist
Arthur Baker
Performing artist
Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five
Performing artist
Us Girls
Performing artist
The System
Record company
Atlantic Recording Corporation
Date1984
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 12 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (31.115 × 31.115 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2001.337.15.A-.C
Text EntriesBeat Street: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Volume 1 is a vinyl soundtrack released in 1984 by Various artists such as The Furious Five, African Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, US Girls. Produced under Atlantic this soundtrack was produced by Harry Belafonte and Arthur Baker.
Beat Street is a 1984 American drama dance film featuring New York City Hip-Hop culture of the early 1980s, that included breakdancing, djing, and graffiti.
Front cover: Beat Street in large yellow letters surrounded by drawings of people breakdancing. Back cover: Track listing and credits are printed. Ten behind-the-scenes images from Beat Street movie are featured in the bottom of the cover.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: 1983
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.337.31.A,.B
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: 1982
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1998.587.1.A,.B
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: 1982
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1998.663.4
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: 1982
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1998.854.9
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: 1982
Medium: paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1998.854.12
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force
Date: October 24, 1981
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2000.665.19
David Matthews
Date: 1977
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1998.854.6.A,.B
Force MDs
Date: 1984
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.337.42.A,.B
Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five
Date: 1984
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1998.395.7.A,.B
Afrika Bambaataa
Date: 1980
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.482.23a
Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5
Date: 1981
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.337.19.A,.B
Afrika Bambaataa
Date: 1983
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 2001.482.10