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By 1968, the number of dance clubs started to decline; most American clubs either closed or were transformed into clubs featuring live bands. Neighborhood block parties that were modeled after Jamaican sound systems gained popularity in Europe and in the [[borough]]s of [[New York City]].
In 1970 BBC Radio 1 employs the first ever female radio DJ [[Annie Nightingale]]. She remains the longest-serving presenter at BBC to this day. In honor of Nightingale a scholarship was set up with her name for female and non-binary DJ's.<ref>Roberts, H. (2024, Jan 12). Annie Nightingale: First female DJ on BBC Radio 1 and broadcasting trailblazer. ''Press Association''</ref>
[[File:Disco electrical crisis Stockholm 1971.jpg|thumb|right|Disco proprietress warns her two DJs (left: [[Wild Side Story#Background|Lars Jacob]]) about electrical overload, [[Stockholm]] 1971]]
In 1973, [[Jamaica|Jamaican-born]] [[DJ Kool Herc]], widely regarded as the "father of [[hip-hop culture]]," performed at block parties in his [[The Bronx|Bronx]] neighborhood and developed a technique of mixing back and forth between two identical records to extend the rhythmic instrumental segment, or ''[[break (music)|break]]''. Turntablism, the art of using turntables not only to play music but to manipulate sound and create original music, began to develop.<ref>{{cite news|title=Turntable Teaching .Berklee College Offers Course On Scratching.|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1914&dat=20040218&id=lghHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kfMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3334,3014916|access-date=29 December 2013|newspaper=[[Sun Journal (Lewiston)|Sun Journal]]|date=18 February 2004}}</ref>
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