Dead Precedents: Roy Christopher and Charles Mudede in conversation
Join author Roy Christopher and Charles Mudede from The Stranger in conversation at Elliot Bay Bookstore in Seattle. 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
Dead Precedents: Roy Christopher at Powell’s
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
Dead Precedents: Roy Christopher and Ytasha Womack in conversation
“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, author of I Must
Dead Precedents: LAUNCH PARTY
Join us to celebrate the launch of Roy Christopher's Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future. Praise for Dead Precedents: “It’s exciting to be quoted so close to the beginning of a book with so much energy and passion in it… a lively
Dead Precedents: Roy Christopher at SXSW
Dead Precedents: How Hip-hop Defines the Future uses the concerns and conceits of cyberpunk literature to thoughtfully remap hip-hop’s spread from around the way to around the world. Its central argument is that the cultural practices of hip-hop culture are