Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation

The Resource Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation
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Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation
Title remainder
a history of the hip-hop generation
Statement of responsibility
Jeff Chang ; introduction by DJ Kool Herc
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 60s 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
Awards note
An American Book Award winner, 2005
Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • discographies
  • filmographies
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