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February 08, 2005
Jeff Chang at MACLA this Thursday
Jeff Chang is the author of the upcoming book,Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (February 2005 on St. Martin's Press). He will be giving a reading this Thursday, February 10th, at MACLA during his book release/signing event. It all starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Check it out.
Jeff Chang has written on race, culture, music and politics in Vibe, Spin, The Nation, Mother Jones, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Los Angeles Weekly, and the Washington Post. He was Senior Editor of Politics at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, a founding editor of ColorLines Magazine, and a co-founder of the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides (now Quannum Projects), where he helped launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He helped produce over a dozen records, including the "godfathers of gangsta rap", the Watts Prophets.
Jeff has worked in community, campus, and labor organizing and a public interest lobbying, and currently serves as an advisor to a number of foundations and organizations on racial justice, hip-hop activism, media justice, and social change. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Economics and a master's degree in Asian American Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles. Born of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry and raised in Hawai'i, Chang resides in Berkeley, California. www.cantstopwontstop.com
MACLA, Castellano Playhouse, 510 S. First St., San José
Posted by Brian at February 8, 2005 03:25 PM
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