![]() Young moves through slave narratives and spirituals and beatniks and funk in a multifaceted yet coherent work comprising history, analysis, and theory. ![]() As intricate and ingenious as his critiques are, Young is confiding, poignant, appreciative, witty, and poetic." - Booklist (starred review) " elegant and informative study. Young reads, listens, and observes with acute, questing attention, following 'underground railroads of meaning' and tracing artistic lineages and bursts of fresh invention. Who is the liar, who the thief, who is telling whose history, and who is keeping score? Young forces us to contemplate who controls the music., Praise for The Grey Album: "In his first prose book, an expansive and radiantly interpretive exploration of 'black creativity,' proves to be an exceptionally fluent, evocative, deep-diving, and bracing critic. ![]() ![]() In his new work of literary and cultural criticism, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, the accomplished poet Kevin Young unearths, orchestrates, improvises and imagines lies and more lies-in short, American history. ![]()
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