Format:
Book
Author:
author. Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-
Title:
They can't kill us until they kill us : essays / Hanif Abdurraqib.
Publisher, Date:
Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2017]
©2017
Description:
285 pages ; 19 cm
Summary:
In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others, along with original, previously unreleased essays, Willis-Abdurraqib, who is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves.
Subjects:
Music.
Popular culture.
American essays -- 21st century.
Genre:
Essays.
Other Title:
Essays. Selections
Contents:
[Table of contents]. Chance the Rapper's golden year -- A night in Bruce Springsteen's America -- Carly Rae Jepsen loves you back -- The nght Prince walked on water -- Schoolboy Q wants white people to say the word -- The Weeknd and the future of loveless sex -- 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 -- Fall Out Boy forever -- 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 -- 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.
ISBN:
9781937512651 (paperback)
1937512657 (paperback)
Other Number:
975021848
System Availability:
5
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3562518
Call Number:
814.6
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
4