Description
| Product ID: | 9781911585886 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | 808s and Otherworlds |
| Subtitle: | Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies |
| Authors: | Author: Sean Avery Medlin |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Rap & Hip-Hop, Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays, Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture and systemic anti-Blackness, 808s & Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and dehumanized. 808s & Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised, Medlin interrogates the effects of media misrepresentation on the performance of Black masculinity. Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture and systemic anti-Blackness, 808s and Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and dehumanised. From the gut-wrenchingly real stories of young lovers unmythed by segregation or former classmates appropriating Black culture, to the fantastic settings of Hip-Hop songs and comic characters, Medlin weaves a tapestry of worlds and otherworlds while composing a love letter to family and self, told to an undeniably energetic beat. |
| Imprint Name: | Dead Ink |
| Publisher Name: | Cinder House |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-14 |