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Can't Stop Won't Stop

Jeff Chang, Dave Cook

  • 546 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 21 editions
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1 About this book

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion.

Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview, and forever transformed politics and culture. But the epic story of how that happened has never been fully told . . . until now.

Good for readers who want: history, music, and a long read.

  • History
  • History & criticism
  • Music
  • Popular music
  • Popular culture

2 About Jeff Chang

Born 1950

Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture. His 2005 book, Can't Stop Won't Stop, which won the American Book Award, chronicles the early hip hop scene. His writing has appeared in URB, BOMB, San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vibe, Spin, The Nation, and Mother Jones.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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