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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif ; Ewing, Eve L
Publication Date: 11/07/2017
Format: Paperback
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. -- 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're 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 -- Iv Hanif Abdurraqib.
Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif ; Ewing, Eve L
Publication Date: 11/07/2017
Format: Paperback
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. -- 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're 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 -- Iv Hanif Abdurraqib.