The author of the award-winning Can"t Stop, Won"t Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time. Music journalist and American Book Award winner 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 it"s going. Some of the essays are: 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 Cultural critics Greg Tate, Mark Anthony Neal, Brian "B+" Cross, and Vijay Prashad in a roundtable examination of aesthetics after...