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…
THE RECORD Opens Today!
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Jeroen Diepenmaat’s “Pour des dents d’un blanc éclatant et saines” (2005) Big ups to Trevor Schoonmaker on the opening today of his museum-size ode to vinyl, “The Record”. If you’re wondering how hip-hop can reconfigure the art space, here’s one outer edge. Trevor’s been at this for years, and to see his vision finally coming [...]
Style Wars Restoration Benefit Event
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
For the NYC fam (Brooklyn represent!) here’s an amazing event. One night only. On the big screen. It’s being put together by Henry Chalfant to raise money to restore the classic hip-hop film he made with the late great Tony Silver, “Style Wars”. Changed my life. Help Henry and the fam get it back out [...]
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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Upcoming Appearances
MOVIE SCREENING + PANEL :: Copyright Criminals (w/Steinski, Amp Live, Tim Jones, Tony Berman, DJ Ripley) :: Mighty, SF
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