Leroy Moore previews his upcoming publication, which will feature the interviews and photos of disabled hip-hop artists from across the world.
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by Leroy Moore BOOK SUMMARY: Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge will be a book of interviews Leroy has conducted with Hip-Hop artists all over the world with pictures of the artists. It will also contain a collection of essays on the topic of Hip-Hop industry and artists with disabilities that have appeared on websites and in Black newspapers. At the end of the book there will be resource pages of different merchandise, websites and contacts of disabled Hip-Hop artists. Krip-Hop will be one hundred and fifty pages and will be completed by the Winter of 2008. Krip-Hop will be the first of its kind and will bring a voice that has been left out from the hip-hop arena and the publishing world. Krip-Hop will also add to the growing industry of Hip-Hop Journalism Krip-Hop will have 5 chapters: The Birth of Krip-Hop, Krip-Hop Goes International, Krip-Hop Trivia, Krip-Hop Journalism and Krip-Hop resources. OVERVIEW: Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge will be the first of its kind! It will bring the words, rhythm, voice and politics of disabled Hip-Hop artists from around the world into one book. This book is the continuation of Krip-Hop Mixtape Series that started in 2006 and has put out two mixtapes so far. Leroy Moore has spent more then ten years researching music history when it comes to musicians with disabilities from blind Blues singers of the Blues era to Hip-Hop artists with disabilities from the US all the way to Africa. In the new age of technology and the internet, Leroy has used this technology to connect with disabled musicians from all over the world, collected CDs, DVDs, books and other merchandize from disabled musicians that many times can’t be found in book or record stores yet. All the artists have a common story of being rejected from the music and publishing world. Leroy lets the artists flow in his interviews that he started to do over the internet in 2006. These collections of interviews and essays shows that Krip-Hop is a movement that has always been there but not recognized by mainstream Hip-Hop industry but has been spreading fast through the underground. Krip-Hop Projects from Mixtape Series, Krip-Hop Newsletter, and Krip-Hop Radio show to this new book venture is trying to educate the music industry and our general public that musicians with disabilities have been around and are making history. This book also breaks the common myth in the music industry that musicians with disabilities are not marketable. Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge can and should be used as an educational tool for the music industry, journalism and the disabled community. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leroy Moore is a disabled journalist who started Krip-Hop Mixtape series. He has lectured on race and disability in the US, UK, Holland and Canada and has a column on Poor Magazine and Hip-Hop Journalism Association websites. His media works includes radio shows on San Francisco progressive stations KPFA 94.1 FM KPOO 89.5 FM and Bayview Village Voice 104 FM programs. Leroy has created Black Blind Blues Krip-Hop workshops for youth and adults and has a library of rare CDs and DVDs from disabled musicians from all over the world. For more info go to www.leroymoore.com drop me a line at sfdamo@yahoo.com Look out for Krip-Hop.com website and our short documentary. |