They can't kill us until they kill us : essays

Abdurraqib, Hanif 1983- (author.).

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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781937512651
ISBN: 1937512657
ISBN: 1937512657
ISBN: 9781937512668
ISBN: 1937512665
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (285 pages)
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2017]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	Text in English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.