{"product_id":"9780312425791","title":"Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip-Hop Generation","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jeff Chang\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForged 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased 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, \u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne of \u003c\/i\u003eSlate\u003ci\u003e's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Jeff Chang brings to it. . . . This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book that should be on the shelves of every high school and college library, an engaging and entertaining full-blown excursion into American inner-city culture's rapid proliferation into every nook and cranny of culture at large.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chang tells these stories beautifully . . . provocative.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When Hip-Hop 101 becomes a requirement, Jeff Chang's history of the turmoil that begat this beloved culture will be the go-to textbook.” —\u003ci\u003eVibe magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most important new genre of the last quarter century finally has a sweeping historical overview as powerful as the music with \u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e . . . the best-argued, most thoroughly researched case for hip-hop as a complete and truly American culture.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jeff Chang's new and necessary book . . . delivers a vivid account of the last third of the American twentieth century. . . . The book is as much a cultural history as a music history.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His scope is operatic, sprawling, and concerns itself with the people, places, and politics that drove hip-hop from its infancy. . . . It is essentially a people's history . . . perhaps Jeff Chang is hip-hop America's Howard Zinn.” —\u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Flow without the ego, intellectualism without Ivory Tower disdain, and, finally, history with heart and passion and fire: Jeff Chang's \u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e manages to go from wide-lens overview to pinpoint accuracy in covering the biggest cultural-political movement of our time. A true accomplishment.” —\u003ci\u003eFarai Chideya, author of Trust and The Color of Our Future\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Jeff Chang is a master alchemist, spinning narrative gold from a weave of sociology, history, political theory, and old fashioned boom-bap. . .\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best books yet written on the shifting, tumultuous history of hip-hop culture and the generation of adherents it spat onto the American and global landscape. It is a tour-de-force.” —\u003ci\u003eSelwyn Seyfu Hinds, author of Gunshots In My Cook-Up: Bits of Hip-Hop Caribbean Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An exuberant and revelatory history of the inner-city cultural revolution that still rocks the world. Jeff Chang is hip-hop's John Reed.” —\u003ci\u003eMike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of our most insightful commentators on urban music takes a panoramic survey of hip-hop's entirety. . .Authoritative, incisive, and entertaining, \u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is a massive achievement.” —\u003ci\u003eSimon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 and Generation Ecstasy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Don't be misled; this is not just another rap book. . .inflammatory, illuminating, and anything but myopic, the scope of Chang's work is awe-inspiring.” —\u003ci\u003eDJ Shadow, hip-hop artist, Endtroducing and The Private Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book belongs on your shelf next to Criminal Minded, Illmatic and All Eyez On Me.” —\u003ci\u003eWilliam Jelani Cobb, PhD, author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Orale pues-\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e draws from the fire, verve, rage, injustices, pains, victories, and creativity of a whole generation of marginalized, forgotten, pissed-on and pissed-off youth.” —\u003ci\u003eLuis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA and Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Jeff Chang backspins the un-interrogated truisms that plague so much hip hop scholarship. . .\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is a fluid, incisive analysis built from the ground up, with plenty of funky breakdowns.” —\u003ci\u003eAdam Mansbach, author of Angry White Boy and Shackling Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Has any scholar ever loved hip hop so well--and taken it as seriously--as Jeff Chang does in \u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e?” —\u003ci\u003eBill Adler, author of Tougher Than Leather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “From the intellectual roots of Black cultural and political movements to the emergence of hip-hop activism,\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive book out on hip-hop.” —\u003ci\u003eHenry Chalfant, co-producer Style Wars, co-author of Subway Art and Spraycan Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eCan't Stop Won't Stop\u003c\/i\u003e brings us so much closer to fully understanding the complexities that inspired the Hip-Hop Generation.” —\u003ci\u003eMark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Jeff Chang has created a new rhythm in hip-hop writing. A must-read and an instant classic.” —\u003ci\u003eB+ (Brian Cross), photographer, producer\/director of Keepintime, and author of It's Not About A Salary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner American Book Award Winner (2005)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312425791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654202273998,"sku":"9780312425791","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_641c1592-a462-4c50-a501-cb3fb6e6db12.jpg?v=1643201166","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312425791","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}