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Flyboy in the Buttermilk:

Essays on Contemporary America
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Simon & Schuster, 1992 - Music - 285 pages
Village Voice columnist Greg Tate offers essays and tales of American music and culture, from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop. He examines music, books, newspaper reporting, and more to explore such issues as racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and political and economic injustices from a black point of view.

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Contents

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr
13
Cecil Taylors Monster Movie
24
Wynton Marsalis
45
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Greg Tate is a renowned cultural critic who writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and Artforum.

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TitleFlyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
AuthorGreg Tate
PublisherSimon & Schuster, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Nov 2008
ISBN0671729659, 9780671729653
Length285 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Music / Ethnic
Music / General
Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  
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