Pre-Order: Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time And Afrofuturism

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Yet another pre-order is up online, this time it's Roy Christopher's sonically and cereberally expansive Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time And Afrofuturism. 

We fell in love with Roy's incisive writing on hip-hop and technology when Repeater Books published his work Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines The Future back in 2019. Boogie Down Predictions expands Roy’s interest in time, race, and the politics of music technology by assembling a dream team of writers, musicians and futurologists who take hip-hop culture as an opportunity to imagine new possibilities of thinking-making-being, from the cult of RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ to the evolution of a Black Quantum Futurism.

Believe us when we say that this book is fully loaded, from heavy hitting theoreticians including Kodwo Eshun and Steven Shaviro (writing on Ghostface Killah), to sonic world-builders such as Rasheedah Phillips. The collection even includes a comprehensive interview on piracy and copyright evasion by Public Enemy’s Chuck D. 

Boogie Down Predictions had a great preview write-up in The Wire (see below for Francis Gooding's great review), and is available to pre-order now, shipping September. Read on for a full list of contributors and more...

PRE-ORDER BOOGIE DOWN PREDICTIONS HERE

Boogie Down Predictions
Hip Hop, Time and Afrofuturism
Edited by Roy Christopher

Shipping September ’22

Paperback: £17.99

ISBN: 9781913689285
148mm x 210mm
352pp

Featuring contributions from: Omar Akbar, Juice Aleem, Tiffany E. Barber, Kevin Coval, Samantha Dols, Kodwo Eshun, Chuck Galli, Nettrice Gaskins, Jonathan Hay, Jeff Heinzl, Kembrew McLeod, Rasheedah Phillips, Steven Shaviro, Aram Sinnreich, André Sirois, Erik Steinskog, Dave Tompkins, Tia C.M. Tyree, Joël Vascheron, tobias c. van Veen, K. Ceres Wright, and Ytasha Womack

“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. Womack

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. 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.