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Hip hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in the
world, giving new voice to the younger generation. Jeff Chang and
Dave 'Davey D' Cook tell the story of hip-hop from its beginnings
through the present day in this new special edition for young
adults.
This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of
Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the
movement's origins. Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop cultural
history, Freedom Moves travels across generations and beyond
borders to understand Hip Hop's transformative power as one of the
most important arts movements of our time. This book gathers
critically acclaimed scholars, artists, activists, and youth
organizers in a wide-ranging exploration of Hip Hop as a musical
movement, a powerful catalyst for activism, and a culture that
offers us new ways of thinking and doing freedom. Rooting Hip Hop
in Black freedom culture, this state-of-the-art collection presents
a globally diverse group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian
American, Arab, European, North African, and South Asian artists,
activists, and thinkers. The "knowledges" cultivated by Hip Hop and
spoken word communities represent emerging ways of being in the
world. Freedom Moves examines how educators, artists, and activists
use these knowledges to inform and expand how we understand our
communities, our histories, and our futures.
Can't Stop Won't Stop 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. 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.
Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry. It has
spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in
clothing lines, TV stations, film companies, cosmetics lines. It
even has its own sports, its own art style, its own dialect. It is
an all-encompassing lifestyle. But where did hip-hop culture begin?
Who created it? How did hip-hop become such a phenomenon? Jeff
Chang, an American journalist, has written the most comprehensive
book on hip-hop to date. He introduces the major players who came
up with the ideas that form the basic elements of the culture. He
describes how it all began with social upheavals in Jamaica, the
Bronx, the Black Belt of Long Island and South Central LA. He not
only provides a history of the music, but a fascinating insight
into the social background of young black America. Stretching from
the early 70s through to the present day, this is the definitive
history of hip-hop. It will be essential reading for all DJs,
B-Boys, MCs and anyone with an interest in American history.
This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of
Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the
movement's origins. Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop cultural
history, Freedom Moves travels across generations and beyond
borders to understand Hip Hop's transformative power as one of the
most important arts movements of our time. This book gathers
critically acclaimed scholars, artists, activists, and youth
organizers in a wide-ranging exploration of Hip Hop as a musical
movement, a powerful catalyst for activism, and a culture that
offers us new ways of thinking and doing freedom. Rooting Hip Hop
in Black freedom culture, this state-of-the-art collection presents
a globally diverse group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian
American, Arab, European, North African, and South Asian artists,
activists, and thinkers. The "knowledges" cultivated by Hip Hop and
spoken word communities represent emerging ways of being in the
world. Freedom Moves examines how educators, artists, and activists
use these knowledges to inform and expand how we understand our
communities, our histories, and our futures.
Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no
Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly
Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as "Orientals."
Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural
movement that knit these disparate communities into a political
identity, the history of how-and why-the double consciousness of
Asian America came to be. At the same time, Karen Ishizuka's vivid
narrative reveals the personal epiphanies and intimate stories of
insurgent movers and shakers and ground-level activists alike.
Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking
images from guerrilla movement publications, the book evokes the
feeling of growing up alien in a society rendered in black and
white, and recalls the intricate memories and meanings of the Asian
American movement. Serve the People paints a panoramic landscape of
a radical time, and is destined to become the definitive history of
the making of Asian America.
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Making Beats (Paperback, New)
Joseph G. Schloss; Contributions by Jeff Chang
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R679
R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making
Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals,
methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing
on a variety of subjects—from hip-hop artists' pedagogical
methods to the Afrodiasporic roots of the sampling process to the
social significance of "digging" for rare records—Joseph G.
Schloss examines the way hip-hop artists have managed to create a
form of expression that reflects their creative aspirations, moral
beliefs, political values, and cultural realities. This second
edition of the book includes a new foreword by Jeff Chang and a new
afterword by the author.
It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theatre, dance,
performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography,
painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and
transformative arts movements of the past two decades.American Book
award-winning journalist Jeff Chang, author of the acclaimed Can't
Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation , assembles
some of the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to
assess the most important cultural movement of our time. It's an
incisive look at hip-hop arts in the voices of the pioneers,
innovators, and mavericks.With an introductory survey essay by
Chang, the anthology includes: Greg Tate, Mark Anthony Neal, Brian
B+" Cross, and Vijay Prashad examining hip-hop aesthetics in the
wake of multiculturalism. Joan Morgan and Mark Anthony Neal
discussing gender relations in hip-hop. Hip-hop novelists Danyel
Smith and Adam Mansbach on "street lit" and "lit hop". Actor,
playwright, and performance artist Danny Hoch on how hip-hop
defined the aesthetics of a generation. Rock Steady Crew
b-boy-turned-celebrated visual artist DOZE on the uses and limits
of a "hip-hop" identity. award-winning writer Raquel Cepeda on West
African cosmology and "the flash of the spirit" in hip-hop arts.
Pioneer dancer POPMASTER FABEL's history of hip-hop dance, and
acclaimed choreographer Rennie Harris on hip-hop's transformation
of global dance theatre. Bill Adler's history of hip-hop
photography, including photos by Glen E. Friedman, Janette Beckman,
and Joe Conzo. Poetry and prose from Watts Prophet Father Amde
Hamilton and Def Poetry Jam veterans Staceyann Chin, Suheir Hammad,
Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Kevin Coval. Roundtable discussions and
essays presenting hip-hop in theatre, graphic design, documentary
film and video, photography, and the visual arts. Total Chaos is
Jeff Chang at his best: fierce and unwavering in his commitment to
document the hip-hop explosion. In beginning to define a hip-hop
aesthetic, this gathering of artists, pioneers, and thinkers
illuminates the special truth that hip-hop speaks to youth around
the globe." (Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation )
The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil
Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay
rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a
definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a
hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political
identity--and along the way created a racial group out of
marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as
Orientals. The Asian American Movement was an unabashedly radical
social movement, sprung from campuses and city ghettoes and allied
with Third World freedom struggles and the anti-Vietnam War
movement, seen as a racist intervention in Asia. It also introduced
to mainstream America a generation of now internationally famous
artists, writers, and musicians, like novelist Maxine Hong
Kingston. Karen Ishizuka's definitive history is based on years of
research and more than 120 extensive interviews with movement
leaders and participants. It's written in a vivid narrative style
and illustrated with many striking images from guerrilla movement
publications. Serve the People is a book that fills out the full
story of the Long Sixties.
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