In late 1971, a track with a very distinctive rhythm section reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Isaac Hayes’s “Theme from Shaft”—and its rat-a-tat, sixteenth-note high-hat cymbals ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Hijack 1971 is an action-thriller based on a true event. The story ...