Traditionally the role of the DJ was to play records on the turntable, mixing in one track after the other. The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop, produced DJs who were significantly more ...

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday ... improvised and played snippets in a loop on two turntables to keep the music… ...

Strings, brass and percussion are at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, but now, there's a new member to the musical family: Turntables. Hip-hop is making a major step in Baltimore ...