Cant Stop Wont Stop, Jeff Chang
Cant Stop Wont Stop, Jeff Chang
List: $20.99 | Sale: $14.70
Club: $10.49

Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Author: Jeff Chang

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Unabridged: 19 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/02/2016


Synopsis

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.

About Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the author of Who We Be: The Colorization of America and editor of Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop.

Jeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named by the Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. With H. Samy Alim, he was the 2014 winner of the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University.

Jeff cofounded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for the Nation, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones, among other publications. He currently serves as the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.


Reviews

There are currently no user reviews for this audiobook.