Olympic butter gold poems
Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When rap's Golden Ages expired, the music's innovativeness and variety diminished. Moody's second book, Olympic Butter Gold, winner of the 2014...
| Main Author: | Moody, Jonathan (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Illinois :
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Opening ceremony
- Chasing the American dream
- Freistil battle
- Son of a
- Die fantastischen Vier
- Okaloosa county
- Operation Just Cause, 1989
- Paper shredding blues
- Deployed
- Mr. Senor Love Daddy
- Telecommunications Act of 1996, or Ode to black radio
- Improvisational riff
- Dancing with James Brown
- Hip-hop saudade (Sho nuff!)
- Bricolage
- Hip-hop nostaljack
- The low end theory
- Berry Gordy's The last dragon
- Luke Cage, hip-hop superhero for hire
- John Stewart, the black Green Lantern, drops science with defiance
- What's beef: the unauthorized biography of Dr. John Henry Irons's alter ego, Steel
- Lovelust a la mode
- Supersonic
- Tough love
- B-boy manifesto
- Manhattan
- Lovelust a la mode
- Spawn
- Paranoid
- The making of a Fresno, Texas, love poem
- Chorophobia
- Olympic butter gold (United States East coast interlude)
- Regularizer (the G-funk semi-finals)
- Portrait of Hermes as a b-boy
- Sticky icky icky
- Kleosphobia
- Choppin'
- Ersatz
- The thief's theme
- Dear 2pac
- Regulate
- Ronda final (awready)
- Outkast crown
- Unsung
- Houston
- Olympic butter gold (Havana, Cuba, interlude)
- Hip-hop
- Pintata
- (from ghetto fabulous to ghetto fascist)
- 2pac pantoum
- 2084 (remix)
- Gothic Barkley.