Flyboy in the Buttermilk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flyboy in the Buttermilk write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 1992. Flyboy in the Buttermilk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Flyboy 2
Flyboy 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flyboy 2 write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 2016-08-04. Flyboy 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Everything But the Burden
Everything But the Burden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything But the Burden write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 2003-01-14. Everything But the Burden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
11 Years 9 Months, and 5 Days
11 Years 9 Months, and 5 Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 11 Years 9 Months, and 5 Days write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 2000-12-20. 11 Years 9 Months, and 5 Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Midnight Lightning
Midnight Lightning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midnight Lightning write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 2003. Midnight Lightning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Incorporating extensive interviews with black Americans who can shed light on Hendrix's complicated racial relationsips, this book explores, among other issues, how Hendirx exploded our complacently segregated world to emerge as an icon for white boys ; why we never hear his songs on black radio ; why black people once viewed him as a hippie Uncle Tom ; his connection to the Black Power movement ; how he electrified soul music and made the electric guitar supplant the human voice ; how he revolutionized the use of technology in popular music ; how he redefined rock fashion ; his sex appeal, especially with black women ; why nobody was mad at him for sleeping with white women ; and how he has subverted and destabilized black masculine stereotypes, changing the way we think not only about black music, but about black identity itself.
