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From the Bronx to South Central: Jeff Chang’s Epic History of Hip-Hopnew
Critic and activist Jeff Chang’s ambitious and thorough Can’t Stop Won’t Stop might be the best book ever written on hip-hop, precisely because he treats it and its attendant generation as the coda rather the song.
  
    Boston Phoenix  |  
    Hua Hsu  |  
    06-09-2005  | 
    Nonfiction
  
  
  
    
  Author Traces Hip-Hop's Past to Reveal Its Futurenew
Chang's thick book reveals that hip-hop is inherently socioeconomic and sociopolitical, and is linked to activism's double-edged sword of violence and peace.
  
    East Bay Express  |  
    Eric K. Arnold  |  
    02-08-2005  | 
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