Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031230143X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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DJ-Blaze said Five Stars. Excellent Job!!!. "The Best book on Hip-Hop period" according to D. GERALD. This book has the whole story or as least as much of the story as you are going to get. If this world was far this book would be turned into a 10 part documentary because it goes that deep. I really enjoyed this book and I think that anybody who wants to know where it came from and how it all got started should really . A lot of Info but This book was very informative. It covered a wide range of topics under the umberalla of Hip Hop. It goes deep into the social and political climate, yet I really felt it lacked information concerning raw Hip Hop. It may not be the book, but as someone who wants to learn details about the origins and details oh "Hip Ho
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. 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.. 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
--Shawn Carkonen. Can't Stop Won't Stop ranks among the best. Jeff Chang covers the music--from its Jamaican roots in the late 1960s to its birth in the Bronx; its eventual explosion from underground to the American mainstream--with style, including DJs, MCs, b-boys, graffiti art, Black Nationalism, groundbreaking singles and albums, and the street parties that gave rise to a genuine movement. He shows how events such as urban flight, race riots, neighborhood reclamation projects, gang warfare in the Bronx and Los Angeles, and grassroots movements that influenced political agendas are as integral a part of the hip-hop story as the music itself. What distinguishes his book from the pack is Chang's examination of how hip-hop has shaped not only pop music, but American history and culture over the past 30 years. He also charts the concurrent rise of hip-hop activism and the commodification of the music and the ideological clashes that develo