Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang


in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Jeff Chang is an American historian, journalist, and music critic on hip-hop music and culture. His writing has appeared in URB, BOMB, San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vibe, Spin, The Nation, and Mother Jones. He has also been featured on NPR.

Movies for Jeff Chang...

Title: This Is Pop
Character: Self - Journalist, Hip-Hop Music Critic
Released: March 6, 2021
Type: TV
Unknown histories take center stage as the hitmakers themselves - from ABBA to T-Pain - explore dimensions of pop music you never knew existed.
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Title: History's Greatest Mysteries
Character: Self - Author
Released: November 14, 2020
Type: TV
Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Fresh, new evidence and perspectives will be showcased, such as never-before-released documents, personal diaries and DNA evidence.
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Be Water
Title: Be Water
Character: Self - Cultural Critic / Writer
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.
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Title: We Gon' Be Alright
Character: Self / Narrator
Released: May 14, 2019
Type: TV
"We Gon' Be Alright" is a digital series that explores the social divide over race in the 21st Century United States. Inspired by Jeff Chang's best-selling, critically acclaimed collection of essays, we discover a nation of historically unprecedented diversity becoming more separate and more unequal. Each episode examines a different aspect of a profound puzzle: Silicon Valley resegregation, Hollywood images, Harvard admissions, and more. The series asks the questions: why and how did we become so divided? What can we do now to be alright?
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Title: The 2000s
Character: Self - Author, 'Can't Stop, Won't Stop'
Released: July 8, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the cultural and political milestones of the 2000s decade, including technological triumphs like the iPhone and social media, President George W. Bush’s war on terror and response to Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s presidential election and the financial crisis, hip-hop’s rise to dominance and a creative renaissance in television.
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Title: The 2000s
Character: Self - Journalist
Released: July 8, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the cultural and political milestones of the 2000s decade, including technological triumphs like the iPhone and social media, President George W. Bush’s war on terror and response to Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s presidential election and the financial crisis, hip-hop’s rise to dominance and a creative renaissance in television.
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Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
Title: Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
Character: Self
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: Movie
An in-depth and provocative look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots exploring the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African Americans and LAPD.
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Title: Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: TV
Explore the music tied to iconic moments in history, from the March on Washington to the riots at Stonewall, to the moon landing to Hurricane Katrina.
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Title: Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: TV
Explore the music tied to iconic moments in history, from the March on Washington to the riots at Stonewall, to the moon landing to Hurricane Katrina.
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Bronx 79
Title: Bronx 79
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Bronx 79 will provide the definitive history of the birth of hip-hop culture – the largest and most impactful youth movement of the past 40 years. Employing first-person interviews of the people that were there at the beginning, original footage and photographs of that era, and unique recreations through stylized animation and live-action we will finally see the untold story of the pioneers, the fans and the world of the South Bronx in 1979.