Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesIn Dead Precedents (Repeater), Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the 21st 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. Dead Precedents is a counterculture history of the 20th century, showcasing hip-hop’s role in the creation of the world we now live in.
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