Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary AmericaVillage Voice columnist Greg Tate offers essays and tales of American music and culture, from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop. He examines music, books, newspaper reporting, and more to explore such issues as racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and political and economic injustices from a black point of view. |
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Foreword by Henry Louis Gates | |
George Clinton Interview by Greg Tate | |
Wynton Marsalis 45 | |
Copyright | |
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