Flyboy 2

<div>Since launching his career at the <i>Village Voice</i> in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music art literature film and politics. <i>Flyboy 2</i> provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's <i>Topdog/Underdog</i> discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism Black feminism and social movements Tate's resounding critical insights illustrate how race gender and class become manifest in American popular culture. Above all Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary Black artists intellectuals aesthetics philosophies and politics matter to twenty-first-century America. </div><div> </div>