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In a postcivil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization. A history of the hip hop generation by chang, jeff isbn. Hip hop activism is a term coined by the hip hop intellectual and journalist harry allen. Jeff changs can t stop won t stop manages to go from widelens overview to pinpoint accuracy in covering the biggest culturalpolitical movement of our time. Cant stop is both a chronicle of hiphops evolution and an attempt to put the music in a historical context.
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