Book
They can't kill us until they kill us : essays
Publication Information
Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2017]
Physical Description
285 pages ; 19 cm
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Summary
"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." --
Contents
- 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