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Boogie down predictions : hip-hop, time and Afrofuturism
Title
Boogie down predictions : hip-hop, time and Afrofuturism / edited by Roy Christopher.
ISBN
191368928X
9781913689285
Publication
London : Strange Attractor Press, 2022.
Distribution
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by the MIT Press
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"Through 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"-- Back cover.
Variant and related titles
Hip-hop, time and Afrofuturism
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Roy Christopher
Introduction / Ytasha L. Womack
Part 1: Time. Take me back : Ghostface's ghosts / Steven Shapiro
Two Dope Boyz (in a visual world) / Tiffany Barber
Close to the edge : "This is America" and the extended take in hip-hop music video / Jeff Heinzl
Glitched : spacetime, repetition & the cut / Nettrice Gaskins
"The theology of timing" Black consciousness and the origin of hip-hop culture / Omar Akbar
Breakbeat poems / Kevin Coval
The free space/time style of Black wholes / Juice Aleem
Chopping neoliberalism, screwing the industry : DJ Screw, the Dirty South, and the temporal politics of resistance / Aram Sinnreich and Samantha Dols
Part 2: Technology. Scratch cyborgs : the hip-hop DJ as technology / André Sirois
Public Enemy and how copyright changed hip-hop : an oral history / Kembrew McLeod
Done by the trickle trickle : Jbeez with the Ley Liners / Dave Tompkins
Preprogramming the present : the musical time machines of Gabriel Teodros / Erik Steinskog
The cult of RAMM:ELL:ZEE : a hagiography into chaos / Joël Vacheron
Hip-hop's mode of production as futuristic / Chuck Galli
#ThisIsAmerica : rappers, racism, and Twitter / Dr. Tia C.M. Tyree
Part 3: The future. Further considerations on Afrofuturism / Kodwo Eshun
Afrofuturism and the intersectionality of Black feminism, civil rights, the space race, and hip-hop / K. Ceres Wright
Afrofuturism in clipping.'s Splendor & misery / Jonathan Hay
Black star lines : ontopolitics of Exodus, Afrofuturist hip-hop, and the RZA-rrection of Bobby Digital / tobias c. van Veen
Constructing a theory and practice of Black quantum futurism, pt. 1 / Rasheedah Phillips.
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