Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue: Museum Object and Cultural History
Disco ball from 1520 Sedgwick Avenue: Date: ca. 1970. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Used by: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955.
The object in the museum catalogue
A disco ball, also known as a mirror ball, used for hip-hop parties thrown by DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell in the rec-room of their Bronx apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. The 14-inch disco ball has hundreds of square-shaped mirrors attached to a Styrofoam sphere, with a metal rod and a ring at the top to hang.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1970
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Used by: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
- Subject of: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, American, founded 1967
- Medium: reflective glass tiles glued on Styrofoam (TM) with metal
- Dimensions: Diameter (from center): 14 in. (35.6 cm)
- Dimensions: Height (overall): 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
- Dimensions: Height (without hardware): 15 in. (38.1 cm)
- Place depicted: Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: DJs (Musicians)
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Social life and customs
- Topic: Urban life
- Object number: 2022.73.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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