| Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Contributor(s): Tate, Greg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822361965 ISBN-13: 9780822361961 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Literary Collections | American - African American - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.640 |
| LCCN: 2015049621 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |