We're more than a little delighted to announce that Boogie
Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time And Afrofuturism, edited by Roy
Christopher,has returned from the printers and
is shipping immediately.
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.
Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time And
Afrofuturism
Edited by Roy Christopher
ISBN: 9781913689285
148mm x 210mm
352pp
“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
Featuring: 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
