Can't Stop Won't Stop

*also click here for a piece by jeff change on the tsunami song


MACLA PRESENTS
A reading & book signing with Jeff Chang
Author of the upcoming:
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
(February 2005 on St. Martin's Press)

Thursday February 10, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
FREE @ MACLA's Castellano Playhouse
510 S. First Street

Jeff Chang has written on race, culture, music and politics in Vibe, Spin, The Nation, Mother Jones, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Los Angeles Weekly, and the Washington Post. He was Senior Editor of Politics at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, a founding editor of ColorLines Magazine, and a co-founder of the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides (now Quannum Projects), where he helped launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He helped produce over a dozen records, including the "godfathers of gangsta rap", the Watts Prophets.

Jeff has worked in community, campus, and labor organizing and a public interest lobbying, and currently serves as an advisor to a number of foundations and organizations on racial justice, hip-hop activism, media justice, and social change. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Economics and a master's degree in Asian American Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles. Born of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry and raised in Hawai'i, Chang resides in Berkeley, California.

ALSO.... BOOK RELEASE PARTY on Tuesday, February 8th!

Media Alliance in conjunction with Quannum Projects and XLR8R present a book release party for Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Join Media Alliance, XLR8R, and the storied Quannum hip-hop collective (DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, Lateef) for a special book release party for Jeff Chang's groundbreaking Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.

Beginning in the Bronx and Jamaica of the late 60s and moving through the rise of media monopolies and a rowdy new brand of activism at the end of the so-called "American Century," this expansive alternative social history captures the triumphs and tragedies of the hip-hop generation with breadth, wit, and style.

We'll have a special author reading, book-signing, music, free mix tapes and more. The event will also feature an exhibition of classic historic photographs from hip-hop's early days.

Music by the World Class Digging Cru:
Tomas Palermo (XLR8R, Umoja HiFi)
Cool Chris (Groove Merchant)
Icewater (Westcoastmixtapes.com)
and more!

Element Lounge
1028 Geary Street (At Van Ness), SF
9PM
Tickets: $7