would you recommend greg tate's midnight lightning book on hendrix?

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quickly read the first chapter it when i borrowed it once but wasnt overly impressed and put it down after the chapter explaining how black women find jimi sexy (does anyone really want to know that?) all in all, i found it more hyperbole than analysis. did i miss something?

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Do all black women generally find Hendrix sexy? That's seems like a pretty bold assumption. Sounds yucky.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not a great book. He rehashes a lot of stuff that's handled better in Charles Shaar Murray's Crosstown Traffic, but there are some interesting things buried in it, plus it's short.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

he doesn't assume all black women find Hendrix sexy, he just enumerates why certain of them do, or rather quotes a bunch of them. I'm always interested in that stuff generally anyway, so that chapter was fine by me. and I like the book even if it is, at times, a bit puffy.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it, too. It's just not a starting point.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

recommend a starting point for tate? 'flyboy' or 'everything but the burden'?

― (Jon L), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i think they meant a starting point for hendrix-reading.

i dont mind the 'oh look, black women think hendrix is hot!' section, but it does read like a poor supplement in cosmo.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Starting point for Tate: definitely Flyboy In The Buttermilk.

Starting point for Hendrix (finishing point, too, as far as I'm concerned): Crosstown Traffic.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I also like The Jimi Hendrix Companion, a compendium of pieces that was put out a few years ago, largely for an amazing NY Press mock-memoriam, "Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1995."

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

when it comes to hendrix books, i dont know if anyone has done it better than david henderson's scuse me while i kiss the sky and charles sharr murrays book.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

David Henderson's book is the only Hendrix tome I've ever read. What's to recommend about Murray's (or any of the others) I should know about?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

so is this worth getting, anyone?

― ilx, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The New York Open Center is having Greg Tate, Ned Sublette and Garnette Cadogan do presentations that look interesting (if a bit pricey)

The Ritual of Music: From Deep Feeling to Dope Beats

Greg Tate
"Artists are here to disturb the peace." —James Baldwin
This evening the provocative musician and art and cultural analyst Greg Tate will look at how certain types of popular music embody and communicate ritual and how they can both move us and shake us up. What does music have to do with man, god, mother nature, society and the mysteries that empower us?

How do Voodoo, Rastafarianism, pagan spirituality and other visceral spiritual traditions give music a potency that seeps into and refreshes our consciousness? Join Greg as he explores how black music—jazz, funk, soul, blues, R&B, reggae, hip hop-uses ritual to become a creative force that forms us.

AN EVENING WORKSHOP
Thursday, October 30, 8–10pm

10/23: The Musician as Religious Ambassador- Bob Marley and the Rise of Rastafarianism with Garnette Cadogan http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1959/5/

10/30: The Ritual of Music- From Deep to Dope Beats with Greg Tate http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1952/5/

11/06: The Roots: Havana and New Orleans with Ned Sublette http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1953/5/

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

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