Jeff Chang has written extensively on race, culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.

He was a founding editor of ColorLines magazine, and a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com. He began writing for URB and The Bomb Hip-Hop magazines, and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, The Nation, and Mother Jones, among others.

In 1993, he co-founded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects, helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He has helped produce over a dozen records, including the "godfathers of gangsta rap", the Watts Prophets.

After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at U.C. Berkeley, he worked as a community, labor and student organizer, and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system. He received a bachelor's degree from Cal and a master's degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA and published scholarly articles on culture and race relations in Hawai'i and Los Angeles. He has lectured at dozens of colleges, universities, festivals, and institutions in the U.S. and around the world.

He was an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and has served as a board member for several organizations working for change through youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts, and hip-hop activism.

Born of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry and raised in Hawai'i, he lives in California. He has edited an anthology entitled Total Chaos: The Art & Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, due in February 2007. He is a big fan of Japanese curry and poi, but not at the same time.

Q+A

Click here for an interview with Jeff by Oliver Wang. For a list of more print and audio interviews with Jeff, click here.

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Props, Disses, or Curry Recipes:

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USA Interview Requests, Press Inquiries, or Review Copy Requests:

Please email here to reach James Meader at Picador Books.

UK and Australia Interview Requests, Press Inquiries, or Review Copy Requests:

Please email here to reach Caroline Newbury at Ebury Press.

Speaking Engagements or Lectures:

Please email here to reach Dave Twombly at the Lavin Agency. For more info on booking an engagement, go here.

Literary Rights, Reprint Requests, or Multimillion Dollar Shoe Deals:

Please email here to reach Victoria Sanders at the Victoria Sanders Agency.

Note: Feel free to distribute any written material on cantstopwontstop.com for educational uses. You don't want to try to jack, though. Jeff has a lot of family members.

Dates

Upcoming Appearances

January 31, 4:00 PM

RADIO :: Hard Knock Radio KPFA (Bay Area)

February 1, 7:00 PM

RADIO :: Apex Express KPFA (Bay Area)

February 12, 7:00 PM

PANEL :: 92nd Street Y/Makor with Jason Tanz and special guest TBA (New York City)

February 13, 7:00 PM

READING & DISCUSSION :: Asian American Writers Workshop Presents the Bowling Green Caravan (Bowling Green State University, OH)

February 15, 5:00 PM

SCREENING & QA :: Byron Hurt presents "Beyond Beats and Rhymes"

For a complete list of Jeff's appearances, check Dates.

Excerpt

Making A Name:
How DJ Kool Herc Lost His Accent And Started hip-hop

It has become myth, a creation myth, this West Bronx party at the end of the summer in 1973. Not for its guests—a hundred kids and kin from around the way, nor for the setting—a modest recreation room in a new apartment complex; not even for its location—two miles north of Yankee Stadium, near where the Cross—Bronx Expressway spills into Manhattan. Time remembers it for the night DJ Kool Herc made his name.
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Props, Disses, or Curry Recipes:

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USA Interview Requests, Press Inquiries, or Review Copy Requests:

Please email here to reach James Meader at Picador Books.

UK and Australia Interview Requests, Press Inquiries, or Review Copy Requests:

Please email here to reach Caroline Newbury at Ebury Press.

Speaking Engagements or Lectures:

Please email here to reach Dave Twombly at the Lavin Agency. For more info on booking an engagement, go here.

Literary Rights, Reprint Requests, or Multimillion Dollar Shoe Deals:

Please email here to reach Victoria Sanders at the Victoria Sanders Agency.

Note: Feel free to distribute any written material on cantstopwontstop.com for educational uses. You don't want to try to jack, though. Jeff has a lot of family members.

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