{"product_id":"flyboy-2-9780822361961","title":"Flyboy 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. These essays, interviews, and reviews cover everything from Miles Davis, Ice Cube, and Suzan Lori Parks to Afro-futurism, Kara Walker, and Amiri Baraka.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFlyboy 2\u003c\/i\u003e will be like no other collection of writing you will read this year, and probably this decade. Refer back to the original\u003ci\u003e Flyboy\u003c\/i\u003e book to whet your palate, and to note and compare the evolution of Tate’s voice and his perception of the world and music around him. Take comfort in knowing that there is a Black writer who has no choice but to be real, poised and dignified, denying all pressures to bastardize the class and power of Black arts criticism and literary excellence.\" -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether you are new to his work or a longtime reader, the universe of Black magic lovingly curated in \u003ci\u003eFlyboy 2\u003c\/i\u003e will do your soul good.\" -- Steven W. Thrasher * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFlyboy 2\u003c\/i\u003e is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of commentary, essays, and exposition of the self, a beautiful text solidly grounded in the critical theories of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century academia.\"  -- Patty Comeau * ForeWord Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"What \u003ci\u003eFlyboy\u003c\/i\u003e 1 and 2 show is that Tate has come a long way in the study of this, the feared black planet and, in so doing, came out a more skilful, more humble man. What his style won’t let me forget is this: we are simultaneously in command of this world, and others.\" -- Kwanele Sosibo * Mail \u0026amp; Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\"What made Tate’s criticism special was his ability to theorize outward from his encounters with genius and his brushes with banality—to telescope between moments of artistic inspiration and the giant structures within which those moments were produced. . . . Tate has a keen sense for the way that both artists and communities discern where they fit in the world, and what is expected of them, and then either go along for the ride or carefully plot their escapes.\" -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]hought-provoking. . . . There's lots to unpack in Tate's writing, challenging us to come along for the ride--if we're up to it.\" -- David Hershkovits * Paper Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"A \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone \u003c\/i\u003econtributor, Greg Tate's ferocious, slang-tinged salvos and deep-rooted historical analysis have inspired readers and intimidated colleagues for decades. This sequel to the 1992 collection \u003ci\u003eFlyboy in the Buttermilk\u003c\/i\u003e felt particularly acute in the context of 2016's nonstop stream of racial horror, whether Tate is delineating visual artist Kara Walker's unflinching slavery-era silhouettes or eulogizing Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson. . . .\" -- Michaelangelo Matos * Rolling Stone *\u003cbr\u003e\"Greg Tate has been responsible for some of the most erudite and energetic cultural criticism of the past thirty years. . . . The book stands as a testimony to the richness and variety of contemporary Black artistic production, and to Tate’s restless curiosity and learning.\" -- Michael Lapointe * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e“Like all of Greg Tate's work, this is required reading for anyone interested in the last several decades of life and culture in the United States.” -- Charles L. Hughes * Journal of Popular Music Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFlyboy 2 \u003c\/i\u003ecollects more pieces that prove Tate, a Rolling Stone contributor, hasn't lost a step, with riffs on young artists like Azealia Banks ('a freaky-geeky, speed-rapping succubus') and forebears such as Jimi Hendrix ('one of our most agile and adept freedom fighters'). It's a dive into what Tate calls 'Black Cognition,' a cornerstone of the American mind.\"  -- Will Hermes * Rolling Stone *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Lust, of All Things (Black)  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Black Male Show\u003cbr\u003e Amiri Baraka  9\u003cbr\u003e Wayne Shorter  16\u003cbr\u003e Jimi Hendrix  24\u003cbr\u003e John Coltrane  41\u003cbr\u003e Gone Fishing: Remembering Lester Bowie  44\u003cbr\u003e The Black Artists' Group  50\u003cbr\u003e Butch Morris  55\u003cbr\u003e Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the History of Our Future  57\u003cbr\u003e Lonnie Holley  68\u003cbr\u003e Marion Brown (1931–2010) and Djinji Brown  71\u003cbr\u003e Dark Angels of Dust: David Hammons and the Art of Streetwise Trancendentalism  73\u003cbr\u003e Bill T. Jones: Combative Moves  78\u003cbr\u003e Garry Simmons: Conceptual Bomber  81\u003cbr\u003e The Persistence of Vision: Storyboard P  83\u003cbr\u003e Ice Cube  91\u003cbr\u003e Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Crusader  102\u003cbr\u003e Thonton Dail: Free, Black, and Brightening Up the Darkness of the World  110\u003cbr\u003e Kehinde Wiley  124\u003cbr\u003e Rammellzee: The Ikonoklast Samurai  127\u003cbr\u003e Richard Pryor: Pryor Lives  136\u003cbr\u003e Richard Pryor  146\u003cbr\u003e Gil Scott-Heron  149\u003cbr\u003e The Man in Our Mirror: Michael Jackson  152\u003cbr\u003e Miles Davis  158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too\u003cbr\u003e Born to Dyke: I Love My Sister Laughing and Then Again When She's Looking Mean, Queer, and Impressive  167\u003cbr\u003e Joni Mitchell: Black and Blond  175\u003cbr\u003e Azealia Banks  177\u003cbr\u003e Sade: Black Magic Woman  180\u003cbr\u003e All the Things You Could Be by Now If Iames Brown Was a Feminist  186\u003cbr\u003e Itabari Njeri  193\u003cbr\u003e Kara Walker  196\u003cbr\u003e Women at the Edge of Space, Time, and Art: Ruminations on Candida Romero's \u003ci\u003eLittle Girls\u003c\/i\u003e  202\u003cbr\u003e Ellen Gallagher  208\u003cbr\u003e To Bid a Poet Black and Abstract  210\u003cbr\u003e \"The Gikuyu Mythos versus the Cullud Grrrl from Outta Space\": A Wangechi Mutu Feature  213\u003cbr\u003e Come Join the Hieroglyphic Zombie Parade: Deborah Grant  219\u003cbr\u003e Björk's Second Act  223\u003cbr\u003e Thelma Golden  228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Hello Darknuss My Old Meme\u003cbr\u003e Top Ten Reasons Why So Few Black Women Were Down to Occupy Wall Street Plus Four More  235\u003cbr\u003e What Is Hip-Hop?  239\u003cbr\u003e Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan  242\u003cbr\u003e Hip-Hop Turns Thirty  246\u003cbr\u003e Love and Crunk: Outkast  252\u003cbr\u003e White Freedom: Eminem  254\u003cbr\u003e Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan  256\u003cbr\u003e Unlocking the Truth vs. John Cage  260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Screenings\u003cbr\u003e Spike Lee's \u003ci\u003eBamboozled\u003c\/i\u003e  265\u003cbr\u003e It's A Mack Thing  270\u003cbr\u003e Sex and Negrocity: John Singleton's \u003ci\u003eBaby Boy\u003c\/i\u003e  272\u003cbr\u003e Lincoln in Whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Susan-Lori Parks's \u003ci\u003eTopdog\/Underdog\u003c\/i\u003e  275\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Power Mixtape\u003c\/i\u003e  278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Race, Sex, Politricks and Belle Lettres\u003cbr\u003e Clarence Major  285\u003cbr\u003e The Atlantic Sound: Caryl Phillips's \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Sound\u003c\/i\u003e  288\u003cbr\u003e Acocalypse Now: Patricia Hill Collins's \u003ci\u003eBlack Sexual Politics\u003c\/i\u003e; Thomas Shevory's \u003ci\u003eNotorious H.I.V.\u003c\/i\u003e; Jacob Levenson's \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e  290\u003cbr\u003e Blood and Bridges  292\u003cbr\u003e Nigger-'Tude  296\u003cbr\u003e Triple Threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's \u003ci\u003eAmiri Baraka\u003c\/i\u003e; Hazel Rowley's \u003ci\u003eRichard Wright\u003c\/i\u003e; David Macey's \u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon\u003c\/i\u003e  299\u003cbr\u003e Bottom Feeders: Natsuo Kirino's \u003ci\u003eOut\u003c\/i\u003e  306\u003cbr\u003e Scaling the Heights: Maryse Condé's \u003ci\u003eWindward Heights\u003c\/i\u003e  307\u003cbr\u003e Fear of a Mongrel Planet: Zadie Smith's \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e  310\u003cbr\u003e Adventures in the Skin Trade: Lisa Teasley's \u003ci\u003eGlow in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e  313\u003cbr\u003e Generous Hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's \u003ci\u003eRails under My Back\u003c\/i\u003e  315\u003cbr\u003e Going Underground: Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eMosquito\u003c\/i\u003e  317\u003cbr\u003e Judgment Day: Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e and Edward P. Jones's \u003ci\u003eThe Known World\u003c\/i\u003e  320\u003cbr\u003e Black Modernity and Laughter, or How It Came to Be That N*g*as Got Jokes  322\u003cbr\u003e Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto  330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sources  343\u003cbr\u003e Index  347","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406097523031,"sku":"9780822361961","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361961.jpg?v=1730494516","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flyboy-2-9780822361961","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}