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Can't Stop Won't Stop
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation | Jeff Chang
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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 60's 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.
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OrangeMooseReads
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I‘m not feelin this book. It‘s good, but dense. I also feel like I should know just straight hip-hop/rap history in order to fully grasp all that is going on here. I‘m going to finish up the chapter I started last night and then put this aside for a while and come back. I‘m also having issues with some of Chang‘s wording, you don‘t need a $5 word when a $1 will work.

Cortg My library is having a program, From Jazz to Hip Hop in a couple weeks. I‘m hoping to attend and learn some history on the topic. I think it‘s the Newseum in DC that has a room dedicated to the history of Hip Hop that I found interesting. I‘m not a jazz or hip hop follower so I have no idea why I‘m so curious about this. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 6y
OrangeMooseReads @Cortg that would be interesting to go to. I‘m not a jazz fan at all and I don‘t listen to a lot of hip-hop but it influences so much of the music that we listen to and knowing more about its history helps to better understand the culture around it. That culture is such a core of society now it seems. Also I want to better understand references in books lol 6y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Attempting to read for the first time in a week. Man Cub and I have both been sick with bacterial gunk/infection (his sinus, mine bronchiole). We are finally getting back to normal, well as normal as we get.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Hope you both feel better soon! 6y
Louise Healing wishes to you both! 6y
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OrangeMooseReads
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My February finale
6 read finished 7 (started The Mad Sculptor in January)
Started 3 more I haven‘t finished yet.
And only bought 3 👍🏼 one of which I‘ve already read.
With the exception of The Mad Sculptor where by or about people of color or the culture. Not bad. #februaryreads #blackhistorymonthreads

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OrangeMooseReads
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This will probably be my last #blackhistorymonth read (not that I don‘t try to read diverse books all the time). After reading ‘On the Come Up‘ I feel very lacking in my hip-hop knowledge.

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OrangeMooseReads
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Thinking about giving this to my brother buuuuut .... no I didn‘t get it with intentions of giving it to him I got it for me.

AlaMich Hey, it‘s the thought that counts, right? 😆 6y
OrangeMooseReads @AlaMich exactly lol 😆 6y
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Graywacke
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A mixed hip hop and black cultural history from Jamaica and Marley, to the New York developing street hip hop scene, including graffiti, racism, gangs, and crackdowns, to Public Enemy and then to LA and NWA and the King riots of 1992, and then on to The Source. It‘s a selected history with gaping holes and no interviews (few quotes, anyway) and wanders off too far on topics here and there, but fun overall, so I‘m giving it a pick.

RaimeyGallant My youth! 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant 🙂My brain was elsewhere. I kind of missed hiphop - outside of Red Hot Chili Peppers - if they even count. I missed a lot... 6y
RaimeyGallant I was big into Chili Peppers as well. 6y
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2BR02B I've had this on my shelf for a few years. I need to get around to reading it. 6y
Graywacke @2BR02B hope you enjoy. I liked it, but with issues. If you read, I think you‘ll see what I mean (I know, we all read differently and all that...) 6y
BarbaraBB @Graywacke @RaimeyGallant I still am ☺️. But this book sounds good too! 6y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB @RaimeyGallant - you mean your still a 🌶 fan? Well, of course. 😅 6y
BarbaraBB 😂 I didn‘t outgrow them 😊 6y
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Graywacke
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Looking for an available audiobook through my library, I stumbled across this title, which I remembered from back in like 2005-ish. I‘ve stumbled across a fascinating cameo of Jamaican history, and now a of history of south Bronx gang life in the 1970‘s and I‘m only like 15% in.

RaimeyGallant Sounds interesting. 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant It is (although the graffiti section could be shorter) It has me listening to lot of different music...and from a different perspective. 6y
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MatchlessMarie
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Because one #reathon for the month of July just isn‘t enough, I signed up for #24in48 too! 🤪 Check it out and sign up here www.24in48.com

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TheKidUpstairs
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1. Non-fiction: tagged. Fiction: Bel Canto

2. My Morning Jacket, Rolling Stones, Tragically Hip, Patsy Cline.

3. Frightened Rabbit at the Horseshoe Tavern, Pearl Jam at Bonnaroo, Lupe Fiasco at Bonnaroo, Jewel at ACC (unexpected but SO GOOD).

4. Off the Record by My Morning Jacket, Why Can't He Be You by Patsy Cline, Aretha Sing One for Me (cover) by Cat Power

#ManicMonday @JoScho

MicheleinPhilly I love Jewel! 7y
JoScho Thanks for playing ❤️🎶 7y
Billypar I've seen Frightened Rabbit - they are fantastic live. 👍👍 7y
TheKidUpstairs @Billypar so amazing! And the Horseshoe is such an intimate venue. Scott sat on the edge of the stage with just an acoustic guitar and sang Poke with the audience. It was one of those amazing concert moments that seep into your bones. 7y
Billypar @TheKidUpstairs Yes! I wish the venue I saw them in was a little smaller (Webster Hall in NYC). But even so, he did the same thing by going to the balcony and playing acoustic, so it made the large venue that much more intimate. 7y
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TheKidUpstairs
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I read this one years ago, and it remains one of the best musical/cultural histories I've read. Charting the birth and rise of hip-hop music and culture in the United States, from East Coast to West, Old School to New. A broad undertaking, but compulsively readable and incredibly fascinating.

#SoundsofThen #MarchintoOz @Cinfhen @Lizpixie

Cinfhen Sounds like a fun book...bet #audio would be awesome 😎 7y
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TrishB
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#cantstopwontstop #anditsaugust
@RealLifeReading
One off hubby's music piles!!

batsy Been meaning to read this for a very long time 😳 Thanks for the reminder 😁 7y
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Rachellynnwright
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I've been reading since 7:30 this morning, and it's now 11:30pm, but I refuse to stop!!!! #24in48

MemoirsForMe Wow!! Very impressive! 😊👏🏻👏🏻 7y
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ChasingOm
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I went to the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention this past weekend and added to my graphic novel collection. 🤗

3 trades of Wicked + Divine, 2 omnibuses of Runaways, 1 trade of Shutter (reviewed recently), and Love is Love (the proceeds go to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting). ❤️💛💚💙💜

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ferskner
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An amazingly deep exploration of the origins and history of hip-hop, but it's so much more. I expected a fairly straightforward retelling of major musical groups and how they influenced pop culture, but Jeff Chang shows how hip-hop intersects with politics, race relations, and economics. Utterly fascinating.

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Owlizabeth
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This book is awesome and I'm bummed I had to return it before I could finish. Definitely going on my holiday gift list, I wanna own it!!

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Owlizabeth
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Need a fantasy break (whaaaaa? I KNOW). I've been wanting to read this for a long time.

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ReeMariani
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New friends came in the mail today.