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Dead Precedents

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Dead Precedents

By Roy Christopher

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About the book

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 writers like Dick and Gibson, as well as graffiti and DIY culture, Dead Precedents is a counter-cu...Show more

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9781912248346

Publisher

Watkins Media

Published year

2019

Language

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1

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Dead Precedents

Format

Paperback

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