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Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop
Electro Rap
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop
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Description
The culture of hip-hop shifted dramatically soon after the first wave of studio-recorded vinyl releases at the turn of the 1980s. Drawing upon science fiction, electro, and Afrofuturism, this book presents a sociocultural study of their impact and influence on the formative years of recorded hip-hop.
de Paor-Evans reveals a parallel and occasionally dialectical evolution of hip-hop music spawned from transatlantic, transdisciplinary, and transcultural engagements and unearths linkages between innovations in music technology, fantasy, folklore, arcade and video gaming, non-white diasporas, and transglobal politics of the time.
Historically located between 1982 and 1987, the book takes exemplary well-known and equally obscure records from both sides of the Atlantic. It makes visible the greater significance of formative and future hip-hop culture in other musics and broader society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Locating The Narrative
1. Electro Rap as Progressive Praxes
2. Journeys of the Protagonist
3. The Fantastical, the Mythological and Socio-spatial Context
4. Directions of Travel: Past, Present and Future in Hip Hop and Broader Society
Conclusions: Towards a New Futurism
Afterword: New Technologies and Creative Potential
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 22 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781501354489 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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