Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History Free Audiobook Download by Dave ‘davey D’ Cook,Jeff Chang

In ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History, Davey D Cook and Jeff Chang take on the difficult task of weaving a history of one of America's most popular musical genres. Despite the recent increase in popularity of hip-hop as an art form, its earliest years are still shrouded in mystery. The lack of record keeping and limited primary sources made it hard for anyone to know what was happening during those formative years.

This audiobook is a great resource that teaches young people about the history of hip-hop music. It features interviews with artists, scholars, and musicians including The Notorious B.I.G., Public Enemy, Chuck D, and more.

"Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a Young Adult Edition of Jeff Chang's book "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation". The book features an audio version narrated by Dave “davey D” Cook. Cook was one of the original members of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. It has received positive reviews, being described as “a hip-hop history you can actually hear”.

In Can't Stop Won't Stop Dave ‘davey D’ Cook and Jeff Chang provide a history of hip-hop. They strategically pick up where their fellow scholars left off, focusing on the 1980s and 1990s, when it was essentially a black art form and looked more like jazz than anything else. Using little known facts and intricate details, the authors explain how hip-hop came about in order to reach its present day state.

Dave “davey D” Cook is a Hip-Hop historian, writer, and journalist. Davey D is also the author of three volumes of the anthology The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, which explores race and identity in America from a multidisciplinary perspective. Jeff Chang is an American professor of sociology who focuses on race and culture in America. His latest book that he co-edited with Cook is Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.[1]

[Dave 'davey D' Cook] and Jeff Chang - two influential hip hop scholars, authors, and activists - have worked to unveil the story of why America’s favorite youth-culture has been so persistent in its pursuit of social justice.