Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Introduction by DJ Kool Herc Prelude Loop 1: Babylon is Burning: 1968-1977 1. Necropolis: The Bronx and the Politics of Abandonment 2. Sipple Out Deh: Jamaica's Roots Generation and the Cultural Turn 3. Blood and Fire, with Occasional Music: The Gangs of the Bronx 4. Making a Name: How DJ Kool Herc Lost His Accent and Started Hip-Hop Loop 2: Planet Rock: 1975-1986 5. Soul Salvation: The Mystery and Faith of Afrika Bambaataa 6. Furious Styles: The Evolution of Style in the Seven-Mile World 7. The World is Ours: The Survival and Transformation of Bronx Style 8. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown 9. 1982: Rapture in Reagan's America 10. End of Innocence: The Fall of the Old School Loop 3: The Message: 1984-1992 11. Things Fall Apart: The Rise of the Post-Civil Rights Era 12. What We Got to Say: Black Suburbia, Segregation and Utopia in the Late 1980s 13. Follow for Now: The Question of Post-Civil Rights Black Leadership 14. The Culture Assassins: Geography, Generation and Gangsta Rap 15. The Real Enemy: The Cultural Riot of Ice Cube's Death Certificate Loop 4: Stakes Is High: 1992-2001 16. Gonna Work It Out: Peace and Rebellion in Los Angeles 17. All in the Same Gang: The War on Youth and the Quest for Unity 18. Becoming the Hip-Hop Generation: The Source, the Industry and the Big Crossover 19. New World Order: Globalization, Containment and Counterculture at the End of the Century Appendix: Words, Images and Sounds: A Selected Resource Guide Notes Acknowledgements Index