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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeff Chang, D. J. Kool Herc (Introduction by)Publish date:2005-12-27Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425791ISBN-10:312425791UPC:9780312425791Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, Popular CultureBook Topic:Rap & Hip HopSize:8.38 x 5.80 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCQ6T4WC9S

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425791ISBN-10:312425791UPC:9780312425791Book Category:Music, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, Popular CultureBook Topic:Rap & Hip HopSize:8.38 x 5.80 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCQ6T4WC9S

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.

Publisher: Picador USA

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