Flier for the “Must Be The Music Skate Affair” designed by Eddie Ed: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A flier for the “Must Be The Music Skate Affair” designed by Eddie Ed. The flier is in landscape orientation and printed on white paper and has black text and images within a thick black rectangular border. The text printed at the top reads [Nubian Production Presents / Must Be The Music Skate Affair / Tommy Boy Records Recording Artist]. Centered below is a reproduced photograph of the Jazzy 5ive MC’s. The six group members are depicted in two rows with the three men in the bottom row seated and the three men in the top row standing directly behind them. The image in cropped on the side and roughly rounded along the top and bottom edges. To the left is a reproduced, cropped photograph of an unidentified woman’s head. Printed above both graphics is a list of performing act that include [Afrika / Bambaataa / Jazzy Jay / Red Alert / and the Jazzy 5ive MC’s]. Centered below the image of the Jazzy 5ive MC’s is additional print and reproduced handwritten text that reads ‘DoiNg THEiR HiT RECORDiNg / ‘JAZZY SENSATION”]. Printed on the right in varying fonts and reproduced handwritten text that reads [Bronx / Skating / Rink / 515 Bruckner Blvd. / corner of E. 149 ST. / SAT.FEB.27, 82 / 11:00 P.M. – 4:00 A.M. / COME IN PEACE / DONATION: / $5.00 / Everybody]. At the bottom of the flier are reproduced handwritten directions to the event that read [DiRECTiONS: #6 TRAin TO E. 149 ST. #5 TRAiN TO E. 125 ST> #6 BACK TO E. 149 ST.]. The back of the flier has no text or inscriptions.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: February 27, 1982
• Designed by: Eddie Ed, American
• Distributed by: Nubian Productions, American
• Subject of: Jazzy Five, American
• Subject of: Afrika Bambaataa, American, born 1957
• Subject of: DJ Jazzy Jay, American, born 1961
• Subject of: Kool DJ Red Alert, American, born 1956
• Subject of: Tommy Boy Music, American, founded 1981
• Subject of: Bronx Skating Rink, American
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 5 3/16 × 8 7/16 in. (13.2 × 21.4 cm)
• Place used: Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Amusements
• Topic: Design
• Topic: DJs (Musicians)
• Topic: Graphic design
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Nightlife
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2020.38.1.3
• 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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