Women's Work - Rock and Roll and Hip Hop

1. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was the first to a rock and roll song.

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2. In France’s Le Whisky à Gogo (a discotheque or ‘disc library’) manager Régine Zylberberg set up a dance floor and two turntables (replacing a band and/or juke box) for continuous dancing to songs played back-to-back-to-back. This was the precursor to disco, hip hop dance parties, Kool Herc’s “the break,” scratching, EDM, house, clubs, free form dance (careful - this is the US version of ‘that club’, break dancing…

3. Donna Summers launched the digital music era with Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love.

4. Blondie landed the first first charts topping rap. Rapture

How did Flavor Fav get in there?