Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip-hop Generation

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.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Loop 1. Babylon is burning : 1968-1977
1. Necropolis : the Bronx and the politics of abandonment
2. Sipple out deh : Jamaica's roots generation and the cultural turn
3. Blood and fire, with occasional music : the gangs of the Bronx
4. Making a name : how D. J. Kool Herc lost his accent and started hip-hop
Loop 2. Planet rock : 1975-1986
5. Soul salvation : the mystery and faith of Afrika Bambaataa
6. Furious styles : the evolution of style in the seven-mile world
7. The world is ours : the survival and transformation of Bronx style
8. Zulus on a time bomb : hip-hop meets the rockers downtown
9. 1982 : rapture in Reagan's America
10. End of innocence : the fall of the old school
Loop 3. The message : 1984-1992
11. Things fall apart : the rise of the post-civil rights era
12. What we got to say : black suburbia, segregation and utopia in the late 1980s
13. Follow for now : the question of post-civil rights black leadership
14. The culture assassins : geography, generation and gangsta rap
15. The real enemy : the cultural riot of Ice Cube's Death certificate
Loop 4. Stakes is high : 1992-2001
16. Gonna work it out : peace and rebellion in Los Angeles
17. All in the same gang : the war on youth and the quest for unity
18. Becoming the hip-hop generation : the source, the industry and the big crossover
19. New world order : globalization, containment and counterculture at the end of the century
App. Words, images and sounds : a selected resource guide