Total Chaos

The most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time. Music journalist and award-winning author, Jeff Chang presents a stunning and incisive look at hip-hop in the voices of those most intimately involved - prominent artists, wri [...]
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The most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time. Music journalist and award-winning author, Jeff Chang presents a stunning and incisive look at hip-hop in the voices of those most intimately involved - prominent artists, writers, musicians and performers, who consider not simply where hip-hop has been but where its going. Essays include: acclaimed actor, playwright and performance artist Danny Hoch on how hip-hop defined the aesthetics of a generation; Rock Steady Crew b-boy turned celebrated visual artist DOZE on the uses and limits of a "hip-hop" identity; Def Poetry Jam's Suheir Hammad on the urgent intersection between arts and activism after Hurricane Katrina; and cultural critics Greg Tate, Mark Anthony Neal, Brian "B+" Cross and Vijay Prashad in a roundtable examination of aesthetics after the decline of the 1980s Multiculturalism movement. Infused with the movement's grit, funk and brutal honesty, "Total Chaos" is a unique and indispensable survey of the hip-hop generation's contribution to the arts.