'Electro Rap' Book Launch

Schedule

Tue Apr 21 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Levinsky Room, Floor 3, Roland Levinsky Building | Plymouth, EN

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Join us for the book launch of 'Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop', de Paor-Evans' new monograph
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'Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop' Book Launch

Introduced by Dr Sana Murrani (author of 'Rupturing Architecture'), Dr Adam de Paor-Evans speaks on his latest book, a critical unpacking of the electro rap era (1983-7) which links science and speculative fiction, contextual urban relalities, and futuristic voyaging through a web of well-known and under-the-radar electro rap recordings. Don't miss this original take on the lost values of electro rap and its previously unexplored relationship to contemporary hip hop.

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Dr Adam de Paor-Evans is Fellow at University of Plymouth, having previously help the post of Reader in Ethnomusicology and Spatio-material Culture at UCLan. He has published widely on the intersections of spatio-material theory, architectonics, and ethnomusicology. His previous monograph, Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism (2020), was nominated for the IASPM Book Prize 2021. He also leads the research lab Rhythm Obscura: Revealing Hidden Histories Through Ethnomusicology, Practice Research and Material Culture which is engaged in a range of writing practice work from performance and composition to autotheoretic and traditional academic outputs.

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Dr Sana Murrani is Associate Professor in Spatial Practice with a background in architecture and urban design. Her research interests are rooted in the interdisciplinarity of spatial justice, informed by a creative, place-based research practice centred on built, destroyed, and imagined geographies of war, violence and displacement.

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