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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Paperback - 2005

by Jeff Chang; Introduction by D. J. Herc

Based on original interviews with DJs, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, this work chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 1960s into the new millennium.


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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.

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Generations are fictions.

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  • Title Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
  • Author Jeff Chang; Introduction by D. J. Herc
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-12-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312425791 / 0312425791
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.38 x 5.8 x 0.96 in (21.29 x 14.73 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Social aspects, Rap (Music) - History and criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.484

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Citations

  • New York Times, 02/19/2006, Page 24
  • Time, 06/19/2006, Page 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.

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