Text Messages: How to Speak to Oneself While Time Traveling

Alsalman, Yassin

ISBN 10: 1642592315 / ISBN 13: 9781642592313

Editore: Haymarket Books, 2020

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181 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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• Titolo: Text Messages: How to Speak to Oneself While Time Traveling
• Editore: Haymarket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1642592315
• ISBN 13: 9781642592313
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

Pioneering Iraqi-Canadian rapper Yassin &;Narcy&; Al Salman is a founding member of WeAreTheMedium, an international multi-media artist collective of Arab, African, and Indigenous artists and creators. &;Text Messages&; is his survival guide, a multi-media collection about finding one&;s self in the anxious intersections of a post-9/11 world, through a combination of poetry, rap verse, short stories and comic book illustrations. Text Messages is multi-form written exploration of the imminent crisis in technology, the pressures of self-awareness, and the meaning of Judgement Day. 

Informazioni sull?autore

Yassin 'Narcy' Al Salman, formerly known as the Narcicyst, is a musician, actor, professor and multi-media artist based out of Montreal, Canada. He was a pioneer of the Arab Hip-Hop movement through his Iraqi trio Euphrates in the early 2000s. He is a founding member of the international multi-media arts collective WeAreTheMedium, and currently teaches one of Canada's only Hip-Hop courses at Concordia University in Montreal, where he blends performance with education, media with literacy and creativity with cultural heritage.