EAN: 9780141995793

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List** Winner of the Gordon Burn Prize Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the Pen Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay Shortlisted for the National Book Award 'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett 'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson 'One of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith At the March on Washington Josephine Baker reflected on her life and her legacy. She had spent decades as one of the most successful entertainers in the world but she told the crowd "I was a devil in other countries and I was a little devil in America too". Inspired by these words Hanif Abdurraqib has written a stirring meditation on Black performance in the modern age in which culture history and his own lived experience collide. With sharp insight humour and heart Abdurraqib explores a sequence of iconic and intimate performances that take him from mid-century Paris to the moon -- and back down again to a cramped living room in Columbus Ohio. Each one he shows has layers of resonance across Black and white cultures the politics of American empire and his own personal history of love and grief -- whether it's the twenty-seven seconds of 'Gimme Shelter' in which Merry Clayton sings or the magnificent hours of Aretha Franklin's homegoing Beyoncé's Super Bowl show or a schoolyard fistfight Dave Chapelle's skits or a game of spades among friends.

Produktinformationen zuletzt aktualisiert am
02.08.2025 um 11:37 Uhr

Produktzustand:

Verfügbarkeit:

Versandkosten:

Sonderpreis: