Roy Christopher

I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. I’m an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. I have since written about music, media, and culture for everything from self-published zines and personal blogs to national magazines and academic journals. I hold a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and am currently an Instructor in the School of Communication at the University of North Florida. As a child, I solved the Rubik’s Cube competitively.

My most recent published writing is in my books Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (Strange Attractor Press), Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body (punctum books), Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes (punctum books), and Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future (Repeater Books, 2019). I also recently contributed to The Journal of Hip-Hop Studies, The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip-Hop Culture (St. James, 2018), and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (Routledge, 2015). I was assistant editor of the edited collection Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Culture and Music (MIT Press, 2008).

Coming up next is The Medium Picture.