Dead Precedents
How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
Published on 19. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-912248-34-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound - would come to define the culture of the new millennium.Taking in the groundbreaking work of DJs and MCs, alongside writers like Dick and Gibson, as well as graffiti and DIY culture, Dead Precedents is a counter-culture history of the twentieth century, showcasing hip-hop's role in the creation of the world we now live in.
Reviews / Votes
"It's exciting to be quoted so close to the beginning of a book with so much energy and passion in it..."- Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren
"An intellectual hornet's nest, buzzing with ideas. The canon of hip-hop crit welcomes a bold new entry, calculated to blow the doors off the usual moribund academic fare. Theory finds its own uses for things."
- Mark Dery
"Hip-hop has been around for well over forty years now, and in many ways, it has been absorbed into mainstream culture. Roy Christopher argues, however, that its radical practices still contain untapped possibilities. Dead Precedents shows how this cultural movement opens new hope for the future by changing our understanding of the past."
- Steven Shaviro, author of Discognition
"Written with the passion of a zine-publishing fan and the acuity of an academic..."
- Dan Hancox, Guardian
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912248-34-6 (9781912248346)
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E-Book
03/2019
Repeater Books
€8.49
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Person
Roy Christopher is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Loyola University Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in Communication from San Diego State University, and is the author of several books.