Title
A Little Devil In America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
National Book Award Finalist A Sweeping, Genrebending Masterpiece (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Exploring Black Art, Music, And Culture In All Their Glory And Complexityfrom Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, And James Brown To The Fresh Prince Of Belair, Whitney Houston, And Beyoncone Of The Ten Best Books Of The Year: Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, Publishers Weeklygorgeous Essays That Reveal The Resilience, Heartbreak, And Joy Within Black Performance.Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Vanishing Halfi Was A Devil In Other Countries, And I Was A Little Devil In America, Too. Inspired By These Few Words, Spoken By Josephine Baker At The 1963 March On Washington, Macarthur Genius Grant Fellow And Bestselling Author 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 Examineswhether Its The Twentyseven 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 Dealthas Layers Of Resonance In Black And White Cultures, The Politics Of American Empire, And Abdurraqibs Own Personal History Of Love, Grief, And Performance.Touching On Michael Jackson, Patti Labelle, Billy Dee Williams, The Wutan Clan, Dave Chappelle, And More, Abdurraqib Writes Prose Brimming With Jubilation And Pain. With Care And Generosity, He Explains The Poignancy Of Performances Big And Small, Each One Feeling Intensely Familiar And Vital, Both Timeless And Desperately Urgent. Filled With Sharp Insight, Humor, And Heart, A Little Devil In America Exalts The Black Performance That Unfolds In Specific Moments In Time And Spacefrom Midcentury Paris To The Moon, And Back Down Again To A Cramped Living Room In Columbus, Ohio.Winner Of The Andrew Carnegie Medal And The Gordon Burn Prize Finalist For The National Book Critics Circle Award And The Pen/Diamonsteinspielvogel Awardone Of The Best Books Of The Year: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Boston Globe, Npr, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, She Reads, Bookriot, Bookpage, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Lithub, Library Journal, Booklist
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