Flyboy 2
Subtitle: the Greg Tate reader
By: Greg Tate
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780822361800; 9780822361961; 9780822373995
Subjects: Music Journalism; Popular music; Popular culture; History and criticism; Music; African Americans; Hip-hop; History
Other titles: Greg Tate reader
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Lust, of all things (Black); title: The black male show. Amiri Baraka; title: Wayne Shorter; title: Jimi Hendrix; title: John Coltrane; title: Gone fishing : remembering Lester Bowie; title: The black artists' group; title: Butch Morris; title: Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the history of our future; title: Lonnie Holley; title: Marion Brown (1931-2010) and Djinji Brown; title: Dark angels of dust : David Hammons and the art of streetwise transcendentalism; title: Bill T. Jones : combative moves; title: Gary Simmons : conceptual bomber; title: The persistence of vision : storyboard P; title: Ice Cube; title: Wynton Marsalis : jazz crusader; title: Thornton Dial : free, black, and brightening up the darkness of the world; title: Kehinde Wiley; title: Rammellzee : the ikonoklast samurai; title: Richard Pryor : Pryor lives; title: Richard Pryor; title: Gil Scott-Heron; title: The man in our mirror : Michael Jackson; title: Miles Davis; title: 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; title: Joni Mitchell : black and blond; title: Azealia Banks; title: Sade : black magic woman; title: All the things you could be by now if James Brown was a feminist; title: Itabari Njeri; title: Kara Walker; title: Women at the edge of space, time, and art : ruminations on Candida Romero's Little girls; title: Ellen Gallagher; title: To bid a poet black and abstract; title: "The Gikuyu mythos versus the Cullud grrrl from outta space" : a Wangechi Mutu feature; title: Come join the hieroglyphic zombie parade : Deborah Grant; title: Björk's second act; title: Thelma Golden; title: Hello darknuss my old meme. Top ten reasons why so few black women were down to Occupy Wall Street plus four more; title: What is hip-hop?; title: Intelligence data : Bob Dylan; title: Hip-hop turns thirty; title: Love and crunk : Outkast; title: White freedom : Eminem; title: Wu-dunit : Wu-Tang Clan; title: Unlocking the truth vs. John Cage; title: Screenings. Spike Lee's Bamboozled; title: It's a Mack thing; title: Sex and negrocity : John Singleton's Baby boy; title: Lincoln in whiteface : Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog; title: The black power mixtape; title: Race, sex, politricks, and belles lettres. Clarence Major; title: The Atlantic sound : Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound; title: Apocalypse now : Patricia Hill Collins's Black sexual politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The secret epidemic; title: Blood and bridges; title: Nigger-'tude; title: Triple threat : Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon; title: Bottom feeders : Natsuo Kirino's Out; title: Scaling the heights : Maryse Conde's Windward heights; title: Fear of a mongrel planet : Zadie Smith's White teeth; title: Adventures in the skin trade : Lisa Teasley's Glow in the dark; title: Generations hexed : Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under my back; title: Going underground : Gayl Jones's Mosquito; title: Judgment day : Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The known world; title: Black modernity and laughter, or How it came to be that n*g*as got jokes; title: Kalahari hopscotch, or Notes toward a twenty-volume Afrocentric futurist manifesto.