Can't Stop, Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-hop Generation
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Baker & Taylor
A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.
McMillan Palgrave
A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.
McMillan Palgrave
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A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.
McMillan Palgrave
Baker
& Taylor
A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture. 50,000 first printing.
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A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.
McMillan Palgrave
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. Here 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.
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. Here 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.
Baker
& Taylor
A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture. 50,000 first printing.
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Imprint:
New York - St Martin's Press
Pages:
546
ISBN:
031230143X
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography (p. 469-524), and index
Statement of responsibility:
Jeff Chang ; introduction by D.J. Kool Herc
Characteristics:
xiii, 546 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Chang, Jeff
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Add a CommentFinally, a hip hop text that successfully puts it all in context as a major sociopolitical movement! Can't Stop Won't Stop tells the story of hip-hop alongside the stories of polarizing housing and economic reforms, police brutality, drug trafficking, and the fight inner-city communities have put up to create meaning via music, dance and the visual arts. Chang has an encyclopedic knowledge of the cultural and political events that birthed hip-hop, and in Can't Stop Won't Stop he gifts that knowledge to us, taking us from 1960s Jamaica to 1990s L.A., with a twenty-year stop in New York on the way. Chang does skip major artists in his history, which might disappoint some hip-hop fans, but I thought it was a great move in the context of this book. LL Cool J, Biggie, Wu-Tang -- they aren't really represented here, Chang having opted instead to showcase key artists in depth to emphasize sociopolitical conditions in inner-city communities: Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, Ice Cube. Chang resits the urge to deify these greats by offering a complex view of their work, putting it in dialogue with feminists and other activists who've often clashed with their views along the way. One of my favorite chapters is about Ice Cube's Death Warrant, the uber-macho gangster rap album that evolved out of the race politics that defined L.A. during the Rodney King era of police brutality. Chang juxtaposes this with a prominent black feminist's critique, questioning Ice Cube's portrayal of women on the album. Chang both celebrates the art form and dissects the politics, giving us layers upon layers to enjoy unraveling.
More a look at the world of Hip hop than the music necessarily. Chang gives the music the social recognition that few others have. His chapters always feel as though they are driving headlong as fast as possible and have frequent cuts. Which is fine, but sometimes difficult to get a full sense of,.