Boogie Down Predictions

Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism

Boogie Down Predictions
Roy Christopher, Ytasha L Womack
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Paperback
h216 x 152mm - 352pg
2 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781913689285
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Essays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture. "This book, edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, the researched lyrical metaphors, the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world, and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop' s intersections with Afrofuturism and science fiction provide fascinating touchpoints that enable us to see our todays and tomorrows. This book can be, for the curious, a window into a hip-hop-infused Alter Destiny--a journey whose spaceship you embarked on some time ago. Are you engaging this work from the gaze of the future? Are you the data thief sailing into the past to U-turn to the now? Or are you the unborn child prepping to build the next universe? No, you' re the superhero. Enjoy the journey. "--from the introduction by Ytasha L. WomackThrough essays by some of hip-hop' s most interesting thinkers, theorists, journalists, writers, emcees, and DJs, Boogie Down Predictions embarks on a quest to understand the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture and what that means for the culture at large. Introduced by Ytasha L. Womack, author of Afrofuturism- The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, this book explores these temporalities, possible pasts, and further futures from a diverse, multilayered, interdisciplinary perspective.
Roy Christopher is an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid--that' s how he learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. He has since written about music, media, and culture for everything from self-published zines and personal blogs to national magazines and academic journals. A Ph. D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, he is the author of Dead Precedents- How Hip-Hop Defines the Future.

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