Flyboy 2 : the Greg Tate reader / Greg Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Greg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights illustrate how race, gender, and class become manifest in American popular culture. Above all, Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary Black artists, intellectuals, aesthetics, philosophies, and politics matter to twenty-first-century America.

Contents:

"Lust. Of all things. Black."

The black male show

Amiri Baraka

Wayne Shorter

Jimi Hendrix

John Coltrane

Gone fishing: remembering Lester Bowie

The black artists' group

Butch Morris

Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the history of our future

Lonnie Holley

Marion Brown (1931-2010) and Djinji Brown

Dark angels of dust: David Hammons and the art of streetwise transcendentalism

Bill T. Jones: combative moves

Gary Simmons: conceptual bomber

The persistence of vision: storyboard P

Manchild at large: one-on-one with Ice Cube, hip-hop's most wanted

Wynton Marsalis: jazz crusader

Thornton Dial: free, black, and brightening up the darkness of the world

Kehinde Wiley

Rammellzee: the ikonoklast samurai

Richard Pryor: Pryor lives

Richard Pryor Obit

Gil Scott-Heron

The man in our mirror: Michael Jackson

Miles Davis

She laughing mean and impressive too

Born to Dyke: I love my sister laughing and then again when she's looking mean, queer and impressive

Joni Mitchell: black and blond

Azealia Banks

Sade: black magic woman

All the things you could be by now if James Brown was a feminist

Itabari Njeri

Kara Walker

Women at the edge of space, time, and art: ruminations on Candida Romero's little girls

Ellen Gallagher

To bid a poet black and abstract

"The Gikuyu mythos versus the Cullud grrrl from outta space": a Wangechi Mutu feature

Come join the hieroglyphic zombie parade: Deborah Grant

Björk's second act

The golden age: Thelma Golden

Hello Darknuss my old meme

Top ten reasons why so few black women were down to occupy wall street plus four more

What is hip-hop?

Intelligence data: Bob Dylan

Hip-hop turns thirty

Love and crunk: outkast

White freedom: Eminem

Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan

Unlocking the truth vs. John Cage

Screenings

Spike Lee's bamboozled

It's a Mack thing

Sex and negrocity: John Singleton's baby boy

Lincoln in whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks's topdog/underdog

The black power mixtape

Race, sex, politricks, and belles lettres

Major's league

The Atlantic sound: Caryl Phillips's the atlantic sound

Apocalypse now: Patricia Hill Collins's Black sexual politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The secret epidemic

Blood and bridges

Nigger 'Tude

Triple threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon

Bottom feeders: Natsuo Kirino's out

Scaling the heights: Maryse Conde's Windward heights

Fear of a Mongrel planet: Zadie Smith's White teeth

Adventures in the skin trade: Lisa Teasley's glow in the dark

Generations hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under my back

Going underground: Gayl Jones's Mosquito

Judgment day: Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The known world

Black modernity and laughter, or how it came to be that n*g*as got jokes

Kalahari Hopscotch, or notes toward a twenty-volume Afrocentric futurist manifesto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373995

0822373998

OCLC:

1144140441