Can't stop, won't stop

By Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

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