Questlove is releasing another book about music history. The Roots drummer and acclaimed director will publish Hip-Hop Is History on June 11 via his own Auwa Books.
News of the book comes just after hip-hop's 50th anniversary, which spawned several celebrations throughout 2023. Questlove wrote Hip-Hop Is History with Ben Greenman – the musician’s collaborator on 2016’s Something to Food About: Exploring Creativity With Innovative Chefs; 2018’s Creative Quest; 2019’s Mixtape Potluck Cookbook: A Dinner Party for Friends, Their Recipes, and the Songs They Inspire; and 2021’s Music Is History.
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According to a press release, "Questlove skillfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits—and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. And Questlove, of course, approaches it with not only the encyclopedic fluency and passion of an obsessive fan but also the expertise and originality of an innovative participant."
Questlove won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for his directorial debut, Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). In addition to serving as the Roots drummer, has has also been working on a new version of Disney's The Aristocats. You can pre-order Hip-Hop Is History here.
See the book’s cover, designed by Reed Barrow, below.
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Article Image: Portrait of Questlove at the 2022 Oscars. (Jean_Nelson via DepositPhotos)
