- Published: 19 March 2019
- ISBN: 9781912248346
- Imprint: Watkins
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $29.99
Dead Precedents
How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
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The story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century.
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 groundbreaking work of DJs and MCs, alongside wri
- Published: 19 March 2019
- ISBN: 9781912248346
- Imprint: Watkins
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $29.99
