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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1992
ISBN
0671729659, 9780671729653
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (64411039 bytes)
Edition
First Trade Paperback
Pages
285\279
Time added
2021-09-28 18:13:34

Description

Essays examining American society discuss such topics as the Central Park rape, the cultural significance of authors Don DeLillo and Amiri Baraka, and the music of Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis Acknowledgements Contents Foreword Section One: The Iron Man Cometh Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer Hard Core of Darkness: Bad Brains Cecil Taylor's Monster Movie The Atomic Dog: George Clinton Interview by Greg Tate and Bob Wilson Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity Baby Miles and Baby Wayne: Wynton Marsalis Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro: The Treacherous Three Cross Over–Prince, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Murphy Are You Ready for Juju?: King Sunny Adé The Electric Miles Part 2 Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Miles Davis in Memoriam Call Me Abraxas: Santana Beat the Messge Too: Ramm-El-Zee vs. K-Rob I'm White!: What's Wrong with Michael Jackson The GOP Throws a Mammy-Jammy: Black Stars Bowl Over Bush at Blues Summit Clitoral Madness: AR Kane 'Tain't Nobody's Buisness: Adeva Change of the Century: Ornette Coleman Invisible Man Overboard: Marc Anthony Thompson Homeys on the Range: Public Enemy The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Public Enemy Diary of a Bug Posses in Effect: Ice-T Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop: De La Soul Section Two: Yo! Hermeneutics! Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and David Toop Ghetto in the Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Whole Growing Up in Public: Amiri Baraka Changes His Mind Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose: Robert Farris Thompson Gets Down Harlem When It Sizzled Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke Signs and Cymbals: Nathaniel Mackey's Postmod Pop You Look Fabulist: Steve Erickson's Wild Kingdom White Magic: Don De Lillo's Intelligence Networks Dread or Alive: William Gibson Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk Fear of a Mutt Pallette: Art and Ancestry in the Colored Museum Cinematic Sisterhood Michelle Parkersoii Jackie Shearer Ayoka Clienzira Darcsha Kyi Ellen Sumter Dawn Suggs Zeinabu Irene Davis Section Three: Soapboxing for the City Leadership Follies New York 8 + Feds o Now We Come by Thousands Love and the Enemy

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