Rolling Stone
Spoken Dialogue: Daphne A. Brooks and Hanif Abdurraqib
The authors discuss the interrelated themes of their new books
Liner Notes for the Revolution and
A Little Devil in America
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Rolling Stone’s
Spoken Dialogue series, the writer and poet Hanif Abdurraqib sits down with critic and scholar Daphne A. Brooks for a personal, genre-spanning conversation.
The two writers spoke about the interrelated themes of their new books: Brooks’
Liner Notes for the Revolution, a canon-redefining history of black feminist sound, and Abdurraqib’s
A Little Devil in America, a book of essays on black performance. Touching on rock criticism and black feminist critique, the two writers discussed everything from Josephine Baker to Toni Morrison’s