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, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop--History and criticism.

Hip-hop.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Hip-hop--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First Picador edition].

Other Title:

History of the hip-hop generation

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador : St. Martin's Press, [2005]

Summary:

A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.

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, 1984-1992. 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

Appendix: Words, images and sounds: a selected resource guide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2005

ISBN:

0312425791

9780312425791

031230143X

9780312301439

OCLC:

62860625

Publisher Number:

99809627694

9780312301439

99983029014