Flyboy In The Buttermilk

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9781501136979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FLYBOY IN THE BUTTERMILK: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICA written by Greg Tate and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most original, creative, and provocative culture critics comes an eye-opening collection of essays and tales about American music and culture. Under the guise of writing about a single subject, Greg Tate’s essays in Flyboy in the Buttermilk branch out from his usual and explore social, political, and economic subjects. Taking on a wide diversity of subjects from irony of the GOP recruiting Blacks to the crisis of the Black intellectual and the music Miles Davis, James Brown, and many others, Tate writes in a brave and distinctive voice that is angry, joyous, anxious, and funny. In every piece of this collection, Tate offers informed insight into where America is going and why.

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373998
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flyboy 2 written by Greg Tate and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flyboy in the Buttermilk written by Greg Tate and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Village Voice columnist Greg Tate offers essays and tales of American music and culture, from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop. He examines music, books, newspaper reporting, and more to explore such issues as racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and political and economic injustices from a black point of view.

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767911261
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything But the Burden written by Greg Tate and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis? Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to tell him, “everything but the burden”–from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in Everything but the Burden explore the line between hero-worship and paternalism. Among the book’s twelve essays are Vernon Reid’s “Steely Dan Understood as the Apotheosis of ‘The White Negro,’” Carl Hancock Rux’s “The Beats: America’s First ‘Wiggas,’” and Greg Tate’s own introductory essay “Nigs ’R Us.” Other contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream hampton, and Manthia diAwara.

Author : Lauren Michele Jackson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807011800
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Negroes written by Lauren Michele Jackson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.

Author : Miles Marshall Lewis
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781888451719
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises written by Miles Marshall Lewis and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is a confessional, stylistic account (in the Joan Didion tradition) of coming of age in the Bronx alongside the birth and evolution of hip-hop culture. This collection presents a mosaic of seminal figures in hip-hop, documentary essays exploring the social decay of hip-hop, and a substantial element of memoir, as well as observations on the generational issues of urban America. With a foreword by acclaimed poet Saul Williams, Scars exposes the motivations and aspirations of a culture whose spiritual centre was the Bronx.

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780738829838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 11 Years 9 Months, and 5 Days written by Greg Tate and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my first book I hope to write more books in the near future. My next book will be a fictional drama. I was born in Illinois but I have lived most of my life in Western Kentucky, where I still live today.

Author : Shana L. Redmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147800729X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Man written by Shana L. Redmond and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.

Author : Franklin Sirmans
Publisher : Menil Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NeoHooDoo written by Franklin Sirmans and published by Menil Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the work of 35 artists, including Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, José Bedia, Rebecca Belmore and James Lee Byars, who began using ritualistic practices during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of reinterpreting aspects of their cultural heritage.

Author : Rob Kenner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140305
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marathon Don't Stop written by Rob Kenner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy-before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up"--