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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
by
Greg Tate
Paperback, 285 pages
Published
April 15th 1992
by Simon & Schuster
(first published April 1992)
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Early 90s anthology of author's articles, columns, etc. So far, seems like man is poised perfectly to tell you about some stuff you don't know regarding African American music in the early '80s. Author drinks free on me for telling it like it was RE: art ghetto-ization of avant-garde jazz (two beers for stumping for Agharta when jazz guys were politely looking the other way when it walked into the room), African Americans' early reactions to contemporary African music, the possibility of mainstr...more
Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate
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Exhilarating, Tate's jazzy/hip hop wordflow essays on the NYC funk/hip hop scene of the late 80s and early 90s is a real time capsule-- an emerging post colonial sensibility wrestling w/ older African Am cultural nationalism and identity. Includes a moving essay on Basquiat.
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