Yo! Hermeneutics!
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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“Black culture doesn’t lack for modernist and postmodernist artists, just their critical equivalents. And now that, like Spielberg’s Poltergeist, they’re here, might as well face up to the fact that there’s no avoiding the recondite little suckers”--"Yo! Hermeneutics!" (1985) by Greg Tate "Tate wrote this review called "Yo! Hermeneutics!" […] and it was one of the first pieces to lay out this science fiction of black technological music right there."--More Brilliant Than the Sun (1998) by Kodwo Eshun, p. 175 If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance then baffle them with your bullshit. In a war against symbols which have been wrongly titled, only the letter can fight. |
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"Yo! Hermeneutics! Hiphopping Toward Poststructuralism"" (1985) is an essay by Greg Tate originally published June 1, 1985 in the Village Voice.
It is a review essay of Black Literature and Literary Theory (1984) by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1984) by Houston A. Baker Jr. and Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop (1984) by David Toop.
The piece was collected in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992).
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See also
- Poststructuralism
- Postmodernism
- Deconstruction
- Hermeneutics
- Yo
- The Signifying Monkey
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Twi proverbs
- Barbara Johnson
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Sokal affair
- Post-black art
