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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Village Voice columnist George has already established his scholarly depth and his gift for stylish, finger-on-the-pulse reporting on black music with his The Death of Rhythm & Blues and Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound . This collection of articles, nearly all of them reprinted from the Village Voice , marks him also as a knowledgeable, entertaining critic of African American popular culture generally and its pervasive influence on American life. Beginning with an astute, comprehensive, polemical time line, "A Chronicle of Post-Soul Black Culture," George traces black mass culture from the 1970s "blaxploitation" films through Alex Haley's Roots saga and comic Richard Pryor's sociopolitical humor up to the explosive popularity of hip-hop. His observations on the origins of rap in New York City black neighborhoods are valuable, and two probing essays--on the fatal 1985 shooting by a white Manhattan police officer of black Phillips Exeter Academy student Edmund Perry, and on the near-cosmic importance of basketball among black teens--vividly illustrate George's sensitivity to the social complexities of African American life. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In this collection of his Village Voice "Native Son" columns (written mostly since 1988), George "reports on, hangs out with, and takes measure of" a variety of black Americans, from Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Kool Moe Dee, and Tracy Chapman to Al Sharpton, David Dinkins, Magic Johnson, and Spike Lee. His focus is the "black aesthetic," "black cultural emasculation," and the recent "tenor of African American culture." Dedicating this book to Richard Wright and James Baldwin, who "taught him it was all right for little black boys to write about how they saw the world with no apologies and no fear," George minces no words as he thoughtfully addresses misogyny, rap music, gangs, Afrocentrism, "blaxploitation," and what he called in 1990 "Malcolmania." His 33-page chronology of post-soul black culture is invaluable. Most certainly, he has captured a significant part of American society and culture. Lots of libraries and lots of readers will want this book.
- Katherine Dahl, Western Illinois Univ., Macomb
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Village Voice columnist George has already established his scholarly depth and his gift for stylish, finger-on-the-pulse reporting on black music with his The Death of Rhythm & Blues and Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound . This collection of articles, nearly all of them reprinted from the Village Voice , marks him also as a knowledgeable, entertaining critic of African American popular culture generally and its pervasive influence on American life. Beginning with an astute, comprehensive, polemical time line, "A Chronicle of Post-Soul Black Culture," George traces black mass culture from the 1970s "blaxploitation" films through Alex Haley's Roots saga and comic Richard Pryor's sociopolitical humor up to the explosive popularity of hip-hop. His observations on the origins of rap in New York City black neighborhoods are valuable, and two probing essays--on the fatal 1985 shooting by a white Manhattan police officer of black Phillips Exeter Academy student Edmund Perry, and on the near-cosmic importance of basketball among black teens--vividly illustrate George's sensitivity to the social complexities of African American life. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In this collection of his Village Voice "Native Son" columns (written mostly since 1988), George "reports on, hangs out with, and takes measure of" a variety of black Americans, from Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Kool Moe Dee, and Tracy Chapman to Al Sharpton, David Dinkins, Magic Johnson, and Spike Lee. His focus is the "black aesthetic," "black cultural emasculation," and the recent "tenor of African American culture." Dedicating this book to Richard Wright and James Baldwin, who "taught him it was all right for little black boys to write about how they saw the world with no apologies and no fear," George minces no words as he thoughtfully addresses misogyny, rap music, gangs, Afrocentrism, "blaxploitation," and what he called in 1990 "Malcolmania." His 33-page chronology of post-soul black culture is invaluable. Most certainly, he has captured a significant part of American society and culture. Lots of libraries and lots of readers will want this book.
- Katherine Dahl, Western Illinois Univ., Macomb
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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