Flyboy in the Buttermilk

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Pub. Date: 1992-04-01
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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Table of Contents

Forewordp. 13
Knee Deep in Blood Ulmerp. 17
Hardcore of Darkness: Bad Brainsp. 20
Cecil Taylor's Monster Moviep. 24
The Atomic Dog: George Clinton interview by Greg Tate and Bob Wisdomp. 29
Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativityp. 41
Baby Miles and Baby Wayne: Wynton Marsalisp. 45
Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro: The Treacherous Three
Cross Over--Prince, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Murphyp. 48
Are You Ready for Juju?: King Sunny Abep. 56
The Electric Milesp. 68
Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Miles Davis in Memoriap. 85
Call Me Abraxas: Santanap. 90
Beat the Message Too: Ram-El-Zed v. K-Robp. 93
I'm White!: What's Wrong with Michael Jacksonp. 95
The GOP Throws a Mamma-Jammy: Black Stars Bowl Over Bush at Blues Summitp. 99
Clitoral Madness: A R Kanep. 108
'Taint Nobody's Business: Adevap. 112
Change of the Century: Ornette Colemanp. 113
Invisible Man Overboard: Marc Anthony Thompsonp. 118
Homeys on the Range: Public Enemyp. 120
The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Public Enemyp. 123
Diary of a Bugp. 128
Posses in Effect: Ice-Tp. 132
Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop: De La Soulp. 137
Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and David Toopp. 145
Ghetto in the Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Wholep. 159
Growing Up in Public: Amiri Baraka Changes His Mindp. 168
Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose: Robert Farris Thompson Gets Downp. 178
Harlem When It Sizzledp. 184
Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Dekep. 198
Signs and Cymbals: Nathaniel Mackey's Postmod Popp. 210
You Look Fabulist: Steve Erickson's Wild Kingdomp. 214
White Magic: Don DeLillo's Intelligence Networksp. 220
Dread or Alive: William Gibsonp. 228
Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilkp. 231
Fear of a Mutt Palette: Art and Ancestry in the Colored Museump. 244
Cinematic Sisterhoodp. 252
Leadership Folliesp. 265
New York 8 + , Feds 0p. 268
Now We Come by Thousandsp. 278
Love and the Enemyp. 281
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