Diversity and "perspective by incongruity" dene the approach to
changing times in this fourth volume of the First of the Year
series. Insights come from interesting minds in unobvious
juxtapositions. First's roster of irreverent--and holy --regulars
includes Amiri Baraka, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Chuck D, Diane
di Prima, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn,
Roxane Johnson, W.T. Lhamon Jr., Philip Levine, Kanan Makiya,
Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Charles O'Brien, Judy Oppenheimer,
Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, A.B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Robert
Farris Thompson, Richard Torres, David Waldstreicher, and Armond
White.Their angles on history and history in the making are
enhanced by contributions from new members of First's family of
defamiliarizers such as Peter Brown, Wesley Brown, Mark Dudzic,
Robert Hullot-Kentor, and Aram Saroyan.
Perspectives by Incongruity touches down in Kashmir, Haiti,
South Africa, and Indonesia. There's a vital section devoted to the
Arab Spring. But the volume homes in on the U.S.A. as well, digging
into race and class structures of feeling (and fantasy). It means
to comprehend the Obama era in real time. Music is key to
Perspectives by Incongruity's offbeat truth-telling. Contributors
sound off on Jay Z and Kanye West, mambo and Afropop, Dylan and
Coltrane, Sun Ra and Arcade Fire. First's meaning is (as ever) in
the mix.
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