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Can't Stop Won't Stop Spiral-Bound | 2005-12-27

Jeff Chang D.J. Kool Herc (Introduction by)

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A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller!

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview, and forever transformed politics and culture. But the epic story of how that happened has not been told...until now.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 560 pages
ISBN-10: 0312425791
Item Weight: 0.9 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.2 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
"An exuberant and revelatory history of the inner-city cultural revolution that still rocks the world. Jeff Chang is hip-hop's John Reed."
--Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
"A work of consummate detail and undisputed import that can hold its hip-hop head high next to the likes of Greil Marcus' Mystery Train, Timothy White's Catch a Fire and Nelson George's The Death of Rhythm and Blues as one of the most important books about popular modern music."
--The Star Telegram (Dallas-Ft. Worth)
"Has any scholar ever loved hip-hop so well--and taken it as seriously--as Jeff Chang does in Can't Stop Won't Stop?"
--Bill Adler, author of Tougher Than Leather

JEFF CHANG has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The Village Voice, Vibe, Mother Jones, The Nation, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, URB, Rap Paes, and Spin. He lives in California.