How hip hop got into the groove

Groove Music

**By Mark Katz**

**Oxford University Press, €20.15**

**Reviewed by Thomas Kelly**

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The Irish love claiming people and things. Barack Obama. Muhammad Ali. Paul McCartney. Neil Armstrong. The invention of the submarine. National Hunt racing. Celtic FC. To that list you can add scratching. The first record ever scratched by Grandwizzard Theodore in the Bronx back in 1976 was Thin Lizzy's Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed. Scratching: it seems ...