May 21, 2008
READING :: Intergenerational Writers Lab Reading (San Francisco)
Co-Sponsored by the Kearny Street Workshop and Intersection For The Arts
More details TBA

May 27, 2008
DISCUSSION :: With Adam Mansbach @ Intersection For The Arts (San Francisco)
A special evening interviewing the author of The End of the Jews and Angry Black White Boy

Jeff Chang
can handle the truth. Mo' bio.

Q+A
Click here for an interview with Jeff by Oliver Wang.

Buzz
+ 2005 American Book Award
+ 2006 Asian American Literary Award
+ 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
+ 2006 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
+ San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
+ Blender Magazine
Best Book of 2005
+ New York Magazine
Best Music Book of 2005
+ Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Best Music Book of 2005
+ Boston Phoenix
#2 Nonfiction Book of 2005
+ New York Press
2005 Best New NYC Book
+ Boom Magazine
Favorite Books of 2005
+ Boldtype Notable Book
+ Flavorpill
2005 F-List
+ The Progressive
Favorite Books of 2005
+ CBC Canada
2005 Arts Top 100

"Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late-20th century American history."
-Time Magazine

"When Hip-Hop 101 becomes a requirement, Jeff Chang's history of the turmoil that begat this beloved culture will be the go-to textbook."
-Vibe Magazine

"Nothing less than the finest rap history extant..."
-Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone

"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it...This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written."
-The New Yorker

"His scope is operatic, sprawling, and concerns itself with the people, places and politics that drove hip-hop from its infancy...perhaps Chang is hip-hop America's Howard Zinn."
-Salon

"How and why hip-hop predicted today's cultural politics is the bailiwick of Jeff Chang's tour de force chronicle Can't Stop Won't Stop...his writing cogently and elegantly combines street reportage, music criticism, mother wit, semiotics and political analysis."
-Greg Tate in The Nation

"There is a fearless sweep to this book. As the narrative veers dizzyingly from content to context, from broad-brush assertion to the laser-focused insights of previously unheard voices, it's clear that there's no part of American life or recent history that Chang considers off-limits."
-Daily Telegraph

"Chang digs deeper than any previous hip-hop historian, and he also writes with more fluid eloquence and empathic warmth than any of his colleagues...Can't Stop Won't Stop is the best book ever written about hip-hop."
-Pitchfork

"Can't Stop Won't Stop remains vibrant, relevant, and vital. Grade: A-!"
-Entertainment Weekly

"Its the best music book that Ive read in more than a decade."
-Dave Marsh

"A broad, eye-opening, decades-spanning account of the evolution of hip-hop culture...a collage, a "dub history," a craftily constructed mish-mash of soundbites, stories, facts and figures which, like random samples in the best rap tracks, come together to form a spectacular new narrative."
-The (Montreal) Gazette

"...the best book ever about hip-hop!"
--Cleveland Scene

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