Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation / Jeff Chang ; introduction by DJ Kool Herc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Genre:

Young adult nonfiction.

Rap (Music)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.

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.

Contents:

Introduction / by DJ Kool Herc

Prelude

Loop 1: Babylon is burning 1968-1977

Necropolis : the Bronx and the politics of abandonment

Sipple out deh : Jamaica's roots generation and the cultural turn

Blood and fire, with occasional music : the gangs of the Bronx

Making a name : how DJ Kool Herc lost his accent and started hip-hop

Loop 2: Planet Rock 1975-1986

Soul salvation : the mystery and faith of Afrika Bambaataa

Furious styles : the evolution of style in the seven-mile world

The world is ours : the survival and transformation of Bronx style

Zulus on a time bomb : hip-hop meets the rockers downtown

1982 : rapture in Reagan's America

End of innocence : the fall of the old school

Loop 3: The message 1985-1992

Things fall apart : the rise of the post-civil rights era

What we got to say : black suburbia, segregation and utopia in the late 1980s

Follow for now : the question of post-civil rights black leadership

The culture assassins : geography, generation and gangsta rap

The real enemy : the cultural riot of Ice Cube's Death certificate

Loop 4: Stakes is high 1992-2001

Gonna work it out : peace and rebellion in Los Angeles

All in the same gang : the war on youth and the quest for unity

Becoming the hip-hop generation : The source, the industry, and the big crossover

New world order : globalization, containment and counterculture at the end of the century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2005

ISBN:

031230143X

9780312301439

0312425791

9780312425791

143525645X

9781435256453

OCLC:

56192279

Publisher Number:

9780312301439

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