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

Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA and Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times “Jeff Chang backspins the un-interrogated truisms that plague so much hip hop scholarship .Can't Stop Won't Stop is a fluid, incisive analysis built from the ground up, with plenty of funky breakdowns.” Adam Mansbach, author of Angry White Boy and Shackling Water “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 “From the intellectual roots of Black cultural and political movements to the emergence of hip-hop activism,Can't Stop Won't Stop is the most co

Amazon Customer said This book seems to be aimed more towards the already. This book seems to be aimed more towards the already versed hip-hop historian. For a beginner in the subject, I found the book hard to follow. Too many names too, not enough big picture.. Yoga life said lots of primary sources & great voice. While I don't know much about Chang's authority, he must have some sort of rep or he wouldn't have access to so many of the most important people in hip-hop to give their verbatim accounts of & reactions to the events in hip-hop and potential changes it will undergo. His language is lively and he is on point with all of his propositions and observations. I also included this material in my work for Icons of Hip-Hop (Greenwood Press). Great style, and just like Nelson George, he is unafraid, eager even, to explore the ramifications of hip-hop in both . Simone K. said I love this book. I love this book. As a person who was involved in my local hip hop community, this book helped me go deeper into the roots of hip hop and where it began. I love that it covers all aspects of hip hop culture. Before they had this book translated in Korean, I used to translate the text to help share knowledge with my fellow Korean hip hop heads so that they could better understand the culture. A must read for anyone who loves hip hop culture.

He lives in California.. 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, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides,

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.. 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