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Book 2021

Can't Stop Won't Stop

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Publisher
Macmillan Young Listeners
Published
2021
  • Rap (Music)
  • Social aspects
  • History and criticism
  • Aspect social
  • Rap (Musique)
  • Music
  • Histoire et critique
  • Musique

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.