Jeff Chang

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation -- Jeff Chang, Paperback

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Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.

Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium.

Author: Jeff Chang
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 12/27/2005
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.80w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780312425791

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/04/2005 pg. 20
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 24
Time 06/19/2006 pg. 61

About the Author

Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, URB, Rap Pages, Spin, and Mother Jones. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine, senior editor at Russell Simmons's 360hiphop.com, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California.

Product Tags:

Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, Jeff Chang, Music, Music - Social aspects, Music/Songbooks, Paperback, Picador USA, Popular Culture, Rap & Hip Hop, Social Science

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