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OverviewThe story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century. 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 wri Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roy ChristopherPublisher: Watkins Media Limited Imprint: Repeater Books Edition: New edition ISBN: 9781912248346ISBN 10: 1912248344 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 19 March 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsIt'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 """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" 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 Author Information"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. His main project from 1997 to 2007 was frontwheeldrive.com (see below). With this site, he established himself as what Disinformation called, ""One of the Internet's leading interviewers of subculture and new-science icons.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |