Draft:Roy Christopher (author)


Roy Christopher is an American author, artist, poet, and speaker. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Dan Hecox at The Guardian described Christopher's book Dead Precedents as having "the passion of a zine-publishing fan and the acuity of an academic"[1] and it was one of Okay Player's "15 Best Hip-Hop Books Published in 2019".[2] The book was excerpted by both Lit Hub[3] and The Quietus.[4]

Books

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  • Post-Self: Journeys Beyond the Human Body Repeater Books, 2025.
  • The Medium Picture University of Georgia Press, 2025.
  • Different Waves, Different Depths: Stories Impeller Press, 2023.
  • Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism Strange Attractor Press, 2022.
  • Follow for Now, Vol. 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes punctum books, 2021
  • Abandoned Accounts: Poems Hunsbury Press, 2021
  • Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future Repeater Books, 2019.
  • Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture The MIT Press, 2008.
  • Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes Well-Red Bear, 2007.

References

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  1. "Book review: Dead Precedents by Roy Christopher review: how hip-hop and cyberpunk hijacked culture". The Guardian. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  2. "15 Best Hip-hop Books Published in 2019". Okay Player. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  3. "Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop". Lit Hub. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  4. "Dead Precedents: How Hip Hop Hacked The Future". The Quietus. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
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