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 60s into the new millennium. From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Cant Stop Wont Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and was selected by Slate as one of the most important books of the past quarter century. 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. Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. Kool Herc (Author, Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition 587 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.īased 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.Summary: Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. Cant Stop Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (PICADOR USA) Kindle Edition by Jeff Chang (Author), D.J. 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. 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.įorged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement.

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang