Foreword | p. 13 |
Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer | p. 17 |
Hardcore of Darkness: Bad Brains | p. 20 |
Cecil Taylor's Monster Movie | p. 24 |
The Atomic Dog: George Clinton interview by Greg Tate and Bob Wisdom | p. 29 |
Beyond the Zone of the Zero Funkativity | p. 41 |
Baby Miles and Baby Wayne: Wynton Marsalis | p. 45 |
Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro: The Treacherous Three | |
Cross Over--Prince, Wynton Marsalis, and Eddie Murphy | p. 48 |
Are You Ready for Juju?: King Sunny Abe | p. 56 |
The Electric Miles | p. 68 |
Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Miles Davis in Memoria | p. 85 |
Call Me Abraxas: Santana | p. 90 |
Beat the Message Too: Ram-El-Zed v. K-Rob | p. 93 |
I'm White!: What's Wrong with Michael Jackson | p. 95 |
The GOP Throws a Mamma-Jammy: Black Stars Bowl Over Bush at Blues Summit | p. 99 |
Clitoral Madness: A R Kane | p. 108 |
'Taint Nobody's Business: Adeva | p. 112 |
Change of the Century: Ornette Coleman | p. 113 |
Invisible Man Overboard: Marc Anthony Thompson | p. 118 |
Homeys on the Range: Public Enemy | p. 120 |
The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Public Enemy | p. 123 |
Diary of a Bug | p. 128 |
Posses in Effect: Ice-T | p. 132 |
Yabba Dabba Doo-Wop: De La Soul | p. 137 |
Yo! Hermeneutics!: Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and David Toop | p. 145 |
Ghetto in the Sky: Samuel Delany's Black Whole | p. 159 |
Growing Up in Public: Amiri Baraka Changes His Mind | p. 168 |
Guerrilla Scholar on the Loose: Robert Farris Thompson Gets Down | p. 178 |
Harlem When It Sizzled | p. 184 |
Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke | p. 198 |
Signs and Cymbals: Nathaniel Mackey's Postmod Pop | p. 210 |
You Look Fabulist: Steve Erickson's Wild Kingdom | p. 214 |
White Magic: Don DeLillo's Intelligence Networks | p. 220 |
Dread or Alive: William Gibson | p. 228 |
Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk | p. 231 |
Fear of a Mutt Palette: Art and Ancestry in the Colored Museum | p. 244 |
Cinematic Sisterhood | p. 252 |
Leadership Follies | p. 265 |
New York 8 + , Feds 0 | p. 268 |
Now We Come by Thousands | p. 278 |
Love and the Enemy | p. 281 |
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