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  • Can't Stop Won't Stopby Jeff Chang; D.J. Kool Herc

    St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 9.99

    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,... more...

  • Just My Soul Respondingby Brian Ward

    Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95

    A study of the links between Black consciousness and Black American popular music from the advent of R&B in the 1950s to the militant hip-hop groups of the 1990s. more...

  • Understanding Popular Musicby Roy Shuker

    Routledge 2001; US$ 35.95

    Focussing on the variety of genres that make up pop music, Roy Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music such as, music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures. more...

  • Punk Rockby Roger Sabin

    Routledge 1999; US$ 37.95

    Punk Rock: So What? brings together a new generation of writers, journalists and scholars to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music history, culture and myth. more...

  • Hearing Filmby Anahid Kassabian

    Routledge 2001; US$ 38.95

    Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. more...

  • Living Through Popby Andrew Blake

    Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95

    Living Through Pop explores pop's history and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, broadcasters, critics and fans. more...

  • Cut `n' Mixby Dick Hebdige

    Routledge 1987; US$ 27.95

    This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture. more...

  • Space Between the Notesby Sheila Whiteley

    Routledge 1992; US$ 37.95

    A study of sixties and seventies popular music and its related counter-culture. Whiteley illuminates her theories with analysis of key recordings by artists such as The Rolling Stones, Cream and Jimi Hendrix. more...

  • Alan Lomaxby Ronald Cohen

    Routledge 2003; US$ 31.95

    This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, brings together articles by a legendary figure in American folk music, from the 1930s onwards. more...

  • Understanding Popular Musicby Roy Shuker

    Routledge 1994; US$ 85.00

    An introduction for students to both textual and industrial approaches to popular music. The survey includes the music press, pop videos, contemporary pop icons (such as Prince) and fans and subcultures. more...