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Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

by: Roy Christopher

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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 ground-breaking work of DJs and MCs, alongside writers like Dick and Gibson, as well as graffiti and DIY culture, Dead Precedents is a counter-cultural history of the twenty-first century, showcasing hip-hop’s role in the creation of the world in which we now live.

by: Roy Christopher

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  • Roy Christopher

    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.

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Paperback with free eBook9781912248346
EBook9781912248353
Number of pages288
Publication date19/03/2019

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Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren

“It’s exciting to be quoted so close to the beginning of a book with so much energy and passion in it…”

Mark Dery

“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.”

Steven Shaviro, author of Discognition

“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.”

Dan Hancox, Guardian

“Written with the passion of a zine-publishing fan and the acuity of an academic…”

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