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

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

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…

If you like book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Maraude…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hip-Hop Is History

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, unpicks one hip-hop song from each of the years since the sound of breakbeat drums first burst out of a…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981

Buy this book on Amazon
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sel…
Buy this book on Amazon
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, …
Buy this book on Amazon
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the t…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

Buy this book on Amazon
Miles: The Autobiography

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world…
Buy this book on Amazon
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?

How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy t…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2

Buy this book on Amazon
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present. …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Tao of Wu

A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop's most e…
Buy this book on Amazon
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga

This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished interviews and unparalleled access to members of the group and their associates. This is the definitive biogr…
Buy this book on Amazon
Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America

Buy this book on Amazon
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

Buy this book on Amazon
Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Buy this book on Amazon
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

Buy this book on Amazon
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry,…
Buy this book on Amazon
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.

In the second half of the twentiet…
Buy this book on Amazon