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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Chang, Jeff. Can't stop, won't stop. (DLC) 2004056656 (OCoLC)56192279 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeff Chang |
ISBN: | 9781429902694 1429902698 |
OCLC Number: | 863507428 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 546 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction / by DJ Kool Herc -- Prelude -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
Responsibility: | Jeff Chang ; introduction by DJ Kool Herc. |
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Abstract:
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.
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