Welcome to Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop website, version 2.0. This new site, redesigned and updated by 226 Design and Kuwayama Design, features all you need to know about the award-winning book and its author, the latest news and a list of Jeff’s upcoming appearances, the infamous Zentronix blog, and an ever-growing archive of Jeff’s writings on politics, culture, and hip-hop. Step in the arena…
On Joshua Clover’s 1989
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
From the latest issue of The Progressive, here’s a teaser for my review of Joshua Clover’s new book 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About:
What can popular music really do? Can it topple walls, stop tanks, unleash hope and change? Or are those powers really just a mass delusion, simply another part of [...]
Why You (Still) Can’t Get CSWS On Amazon
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
First thing to say is that work on these two books has been kicking my ass. I’ll admit it has been easier to tweet than blog. I’ll also want to say that it sucks that this is the topic to get me back up on the blog, since I still have some much better posts [...]
Jeff’s At Work On Two New Books
Jeff has begun working on Who We Be: The Colorization of America, the followup to Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Total Chaos…
CSWS V. 2.0 Launches!
After 5 years, we’ve finally overhauled the entire website. Here’s what we did.
The Reader is the online archive of Jeff’s writings on culture, politics, music, and more. It includes excerpts and outtakes from Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and interviews with Jeff. Articles are being added regularly, so come back often.
The Creativity Stimulus
Every moment of major social change requires a collective leap of imagination. Political transformation must be accompanied not just by spontaneous and organized expressions of unrest and risk, but by an explosion of mass creativity…
News From Nowhere :: MIA’s Kala and “Paper Planes”
Children—brown-skinned children from Liberia, India, Jamaica and Baltimore, the post-hip-hop nationals of what M.I.A. calls World Town—climb all over the grooves of Kala. Their noise becomes part of the record’s texture: they shriek in delight, laugh and dance; they kick rhymes; they cock guns…
It’s Obama Time :: The Vibe Cover Story
In August of 2007, Vibe became the first hip-hop gen magazine to put Obama on its cover, even beating the likes of Rolling Stone. It was also Vibe’s first cover featuring a political figure. Jeff got the assignment. Here’s the historic piece…
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