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ISBN-10: 0822361965
ISBN-13: 9780822361961
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/05/2016
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H

Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

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Overview

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.

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"Tate has been an important if underread critic for the past several decades, and this collection will allow more readers to discover him. Not a fast or simple read, but a worthwhile one for fans of music and culture." –Craig L. Shufelt "Library Journal" (7/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
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Details

ISBN-10: 0822361965
ISBN-13: 9780822361961
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/05/2016
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.80" H
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