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Jeff

I am here for Friends

About Me

"All the pieces matter."
-Lester Freamon

"And now I'm gonna do my dance."
-Humpty Hump

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Everyone

Books:

Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Coming February 2007 on Basic Civitas Books
Featuring:
Nazli Abrahams, Cey Adams, Bill Adler, Alien Ness, Harry Allen, Shaheen Ariefdien, Eric Arnold, B+, Traci Bartlow, Sanford Biggers, Raquel Cepeda, Staceyann Chin, Brett Cook-Dizney, Kevin Coval, Eisa Davis, Kevin Epps, Kamilah Forbes, Father Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, Rennie Harris, Luis Gispert, Jeffrey DOZE Green, Suheir Hammad, Danny Hoch, Walidah Imarisha, JAAS, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Sacha Jenkins, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Juba Kalamka, Robert Karimi, Litefoot, Adam Mansbach, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Joan Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Jorge Popmaster Fabel Pabon, Vijay Prashad, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, Rachel Raimist, Javier Reyes, Rha Goddess, Nadine Robinson, Brent Rollins, Jackie Salloum, Grant Lee Saunders, Danyel Smith, Joe Schloss, Joel Tan, Greg Tate, Darren DLT Thompson, Dave Tompkins, Roberta Uno, Cristina Verán, Oliver Wang, Michael Wanguhu, and Tim'm T. West.
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
USA: St. Martins/Picador, 2005
UK/Australia: EBury, 2005
Sweden: Reverb/SL, 2006
France: Allia, 2006
Brazil, Finland, Japan: soon come

My Blog

Scapegoating Hip-Hop :: The Culture's Other Side

No Scapegoats: The Other Side of Hip-hopBy Jeff Chang and Dave ZirinApril 23, 2007http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-zirin23apr23,0 ,3088270.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrailMUCH OF THE criticism ...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:14:00 PST

Imus-ing Rap :: Capitalism, Race, Gender, and Speech

It wasn't 48 hours ago that Javier Reyes and I were being interviewed about hip-hop aesthetics and Imus on KALW, and the question came up as to whether the Imus thing had legs. Reyes laughed, "Are you...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:54:00 PST

Hope I Die Before I Get Old?

OK, forgive me one last post about this whole aging thing and then I will write about it no more. Not until my next birthday. One of the topics that came up at the Berkeley panel, and that I raised ag...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Neocons and Hip-Hop

For the past few days I've been up in Laramie, Wyoming, snowbound and in whiteout. It was actually really inspiring to see how young people have taken hip-hop to describe their own story. I met a mult...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:22:00 PST

Profile of Rennie Harris

You can download it here. Visit the Puremovement in Myspace here. And if you're in Philly, go get tickets for his career retrospective now!...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:19:00 PST

Total Chaos website is up!!!

Go here now and tell a friend!
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:43:00 PST

Me on Jay-Z in The Nation

Go here. Come back. Diss the piece.
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:16:00 PST

Xpost Deaux: Best Books of 2006

More xposts... Check this.
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:14:00 PST

Xpost Uno: Music '06

One blog's enough. So I'ma cross-post...The Best Of 2006!
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:01:00 PST