Hip Hop x Cyberpunk (with clipping.)
A detail of the album art from clipping.’s new album Dead Channel Sky
Hip hop group clipping. has just released a brilliant new cyberpunk-inspired album, Dead Channel Sky, and we're talking to the members about how hip hop and cyberpunk have inspired each other from the beginning. Hope you've got your mirrorshades! Meanwhile, contributing host Bethany Brookshire takes us on a deep dive into medieval history and shares the startling tale of how three thousand hats ended a war.
References, Links, & Etc.
clipping’s website and Bandcamp page.
Their new album, Dead Channel Sky
Rachel Schine is a medieval scholar and professor of Arabic
Other sources consulted for hats segment:
Peacock, ACS. “The Great Seljuk Empire” Edinburgh University Press 2015
Soucek, P. “Ethnic depictions in Varqah ave Gulshah.” Presented at the 9th International Conference of Turkis, 1995.
Jackson, P. “The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion” Yale University Press, 2017.
Morton, N. “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East” Basic Books, 2022.
Dietrich, R. “Seljuks Cultural History.”
Tackett, Dinah. “Pre-Mongol Persian Costume Or 11th and 12th Century Seljuk Dynasty Costume” 2013.
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap. (12th–early 13th century). [Gypsum plaster; modeled, carved]. In Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap [42.25.17]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://jstor.org/stable/community.18505921
Top Section of a Water Jug, late 12th–early 13th century. Ceramic; earthenware, pierced decoration, 12 x 14 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (30.5 x 36.2 x 36.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Roebling Society, 73.30.6. Creative Commons-BY
S.S. Blair, A Compendium of Chronicles. Rashid al-Din’s Illustrated History of the World, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume XXVII, London 1995.
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.180–97, pp.156–65.