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A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times best-selling author of Go Ahead in the Rain At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was 57 years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. Inspired by these few words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines — whether it’s the 27 seconds in “Gimme Shelter” in which Merry Clayton wails the words “rape, murder,” a schoolyard fistfight, a dance marathon, or the instant in a game of spades right after the cards are dealt — has layers of resonance in Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and Abdurraqib’s own personal history of love, grief, and performance. RUNNING TIME ⇒ 10hrs. ©2020 Hanif Abdurraqib (P)2020 Random House Audio
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A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141995793
- ISBN13
- 9780141995793
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Kunst & Kultur, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Musikalische Thematik, Musik, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Meinungsjournalismus, Rasse, Rassismus
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- A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times best-selling author of Go Ahead in the Rain At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was 57 years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. Inspired by these few words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines — whether it’s the 27 seconds in “Gimme Shelter” in which Merry Clayton wails the words “rape, murder,” a schoolyard fistfight, a dance marathon, or the instant in a game of spades right after the cards are dealt — has layers of resonance in Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and Abdurraqib’s own personal history of love, grief, and performance. RUNNING TIME ⇒ 10hrs. ©2020 Hanif Abdurraqib (P)2020 Random House Audio