This program is read by the authors.
The American Book Award winner, now completely adapted for a young adult audience!
From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement and the music that transformed American politics and culture forever.
Hip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America, giving new voice to the younger generation. It defines a generation's worldview. Exploring hip hop's beginnings up to the present day, Jeff Chang and Dave "Davey D" Cook provide a provocative look into the new world that the hip hop generation has created.
Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop's forebears, founders, mavericks, and present day icons, this book chronicles the epic events, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation's rise.
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition)
A Hip-Hop History
1 of 1 copy available
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Creators
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Release date
March 16, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250756282
- File size: 360019 KB
- Duration: 12:30:02
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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April 1, 2022
Gr 8 Up-Over a decade and a half after its 2005 publication, the young readers edition of historian/journalist/music critic Chang's seminal Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation seems almost overdue. The enhanced collaboration with historian/journalist/professor Cook adds new generations of makers and shakers, resulting in an enlightening, entertaining, sobering masterpiece. Covering over a half-century of history from the 1960s through the COVID-19 pandemic, Chang and Cook provide a stunning political, socioeconomic, musical melding. The audiobook, unfortunately, is disheartening. The duo alternates voicing the four "Loops," with Chang's steady gravitas making him the stronger narrator. Cook's passionate delivery occasionally hampers his enunciation; mispronunciations ("Sa-I-Gu," for example) loom. The most egregious blunders belong to the production team, with countless jarring insertions reminiscent of spotty cell connections. And why awkwardly embed just phrases-"with its redbrick buildings," "from San Fernando Valley"-instead of re-recording full sentences? VERDICT For sound purists, choose the page.
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