G'ra Asim

Boyz N the Void

A Mixtape to My Brother

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Memoir, social commentary, and music criticism in the form of essays-or "mixtapes"-from an older brother to his much younger brother who's struggling in early adulthood"--]cProvided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 119mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780807055557
• ISBN-10: 0807055557
• Artikelnr.: 62919482

Autorenporträt

G’Ra Asim is a writer, a musician, and an assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as writing director at the African American Policy Forum and as graduate teaching fellow in Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program. His work has appeared in Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Baffler, and The New Republic. When not writing prose or teaching, he sings, plays bass and writes lyrics for NYC DIY pop punk band babygotbacktalk, who were named one of AfroPunk’s “Top 8 Punkest Bands on the Planet Right Now.”

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Africa Has No History:
An Annotation of Anti-Flag’s “A Start”
Evidence of Things Unscene:
An Annotation of Propagandhi’s “Less Talk, More Rock”
Marching Through the Mosh Pit:
An Annotation of Operation Ivy’s “Room Without a Window”
Ace Up My Sleeve:
An Annotation of the Matches’ “More Than Local Boys”
Mad Props to Madness:
An Annotation of Bad Religion’s “Pity the Dead”
Ever Since I Was a Little Grrrl:
An Annotation of Black Kids’ “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to
Dance with You”
To the Edge and Back:
An Annotation of Brand New’s “Sic Transit Gloria . . . Glory Fades”
American Idiolect:
An Annotation of Fefe Dobson’s “Stupid Little Love Song”
PMA (Positivist* Mental Attitude):
An Annotation of Bad Brains’ “Attitude”
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What Omnaut:
An Annotation of Masked Intruder’s “Take What I Want”
Acknowledgments
Notes