Can't stop, won't stop

By Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

Subjects: Ml3531 .c5 2005, Musique - Aspect social, Rap (Musique) - États-Unis - Histoire et critique, Music / Rap, Musique, Hip-hop, Geschichte 1968-2001, Rap (Music), Music/Songbooks, Hip-Hop, Popular music, Rap (music)--history and criticism, History & Criticism - General, Music, history and criticism, Music, Popular Culture - General, Social aspects of Music, Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop, Rap (Musique), Rap (music), History and criticism, Rap music, Histoire et critique, Music--social aspects, Social aspects, History, Aspect social, 306.4/84249/0973, Music, social aspects

Description: 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.