{"product_id":"boogie-down-predictions","title":"Boogie Down Predictions - Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough essays by some of hip-hop's most interesting thinkers, theorists, journalists, writers, emcees, and DJs, \u003ci\u003eBoogie Down Predictions\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAfrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, this book explores these temporalities, possible pasts, and further futures from a diverse, multilayered, interdisciplinary perspective.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167253659936,"sku":"9781913689285","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781913689285.jpg?v=1769727223","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/boogie-down-predictions","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}