Austin McCoy
Assistant professor of history at West Virginia University specializing in African American history, labor history, social movements, and hip-hop culture, and author of Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 50min
Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)
Austin McCoy, Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University and author of Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age, traces De La Soul’s cultural revolution. He explains the DAISY concept and the group’s aesthetic risks. He shares new archival findings, mixes memoir with scholarship, and debates algorithms versus mixtape curation.
Mar 11, 2026 • 50min
Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)
Austin McCoy, assistant professor of history who studies African American history and hip-hop culture, explores De La Soul’s cultural revolution. He traces the D.A.I.S.Y. ethic, the group’s aesthetic and alternative masculinity, their battles over rights, and how their sound and style reshaped music and culture. Short, vivid stories and archival research bring the era to life.
