| Description |
285 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
I: Chance The Rapper's Golden Year -- A Night in Bruce Springsteen's America -- Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back -- The Night Prince Walked on Water -- ScHoolboy Q Wants White People to Say the Word -- The Weeknd and the Future of Loveless Sex -- II: I Wasn't Brought Here, I was Born: Surviving Punk Rock Long Enough to Find Afropunk -- Under Half-Lit Fluorescents: The Wonder Years and The Great Suburban Narrative -- All Our Friends Are Famous -- The Return of the Loneliest Boys in Town -- Brief Notes on Staying// No One Is Making Their Best Work When They Want to Die -- Searching For a New Kind of Optimism -- Death Becomes You: My Chemical Romance and Ten Years of the Black Parade -- Defiance, Ohio is the Name of A Band -- III: Fall Out Boy Forever -- IV: Ric Flair, Best Rapper Alive -- It Rained in Ohio On the Night Allen Iverson Hit Michael Jordan with a Crossover -- There Is The Picture of Michael Jackson Kissing Whitney Houston on the Cheek -- Black Life on Film -- Tell ' Em All To Come and Get Me -- Burning That Which Will Not Save You: Wipe Me Down and the Ballad of Baton Rouge -- Rumours and the Currency of Heartbreak -- V: February 26, 2012 -- On Kindness -- In The Summer of 1997, Everyone Took to the Streets In Shiny Suits -- Nina Simone was Very Black -- Blood Summer, in three parts -- August 9, 2014 -- Fear in Two Winters -- On Paris-- My First Police Stop -- Serena Williams And the Policing of Imagined Arrogance -- They Will Speak Loudest of you After You've Gone -- Johnny Cash Never Shot a Man in Reno. Or, The Migos: Nice Kids From the Suburbs -- The Obama White House, A Brief Home for Rappers -- The White Rapper Joke -- On Future and Working Through What Hurts -- November 22, 2014 -- Surviving On Small Joys -- VI. |
| Summary |
"In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others--along with original, previously unreleased essays-- Abdurraquib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ouselves, and in doing so proves himself a bellwether for out times." -- Page 4 of cover. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Literary collections.
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American essays -- 21st century.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop.
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American essays. (OCoLC)fst00807040
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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They cannot kill us until they kill us |
| ISBN |
9781937512651 (paperback) |
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1937512657 (paperback) |
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