2021 哈尼夫-阿卜杜拉齐布 音乐评论家、散文家和诗人

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Hanif Abdurraqib
Music Critic, Essayist, and Poet | Class of 2021
Forging a distinctive style of cultural and artistic criticism through the lens of popular music and autobiography.


Portrait of Hanif Abdurraqib
Title
Music Critic, Essayist, and Poet
Location
Columbus, Ohio
Age
38 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Poetry
Website
abdurraqib.com
68to05: A Playlist Project
Social
Instagram
Twitter
Published September 28, 2021
ABOUT HANIF'S WORK
Hanif Abdurraqib is a music critic, essayist, and poet using the lens of popular music to examine the broader culture that produces and consumes it. With an intimate and welcoming writing style that establishes an immediate connection with readers, he blends autobiography, social history, and keen insights into specific technical and emotional aspects of a song, an album, or a performance.

Many of the essays in Abdurraqib’s first collection, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), grew out of reviews and articles he wrote while a journalist; taken together, they form a deeply personal consideration of self-identity and the continued suffering inflicted on Black bodies at the hands of police and others. For example, he writes about attending a Bruce Springsteen concert days after visiting a memorial for Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and struggling to reconcile his technical appreciation of the music with the racialized and gendered stories told by the lyrics. In his book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (2019), Abdurraqib traces the three-decade history of the pioneering hip-hop group and its impact within the larger hip-hop movement. He writes with clear affection for the group, and his assessment of the social and political atmosphere in which it operated includes reflections on how those same forces shaped his childhood and his experience of the music. Some sections are stylized as personal letters directed to members of the group, while others analyze its shifting aesthetic practices, such as how and why their wide-ranging use of sampling in early releases was later curtailed. Abdurraqib delves more deeply into historical research for his most recent book, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (2021). His thought-provoking observations on key artists and cultural moments in music, film, dance, and comedy—ranging from William Henry Lane, a nineteenth-century minstrel dancer who performed for White audiences in blackface, to Beyoncé’s 2016 Super Bowl appearance and the dance and music television show Soul Train—form a focused analysis of Blackness and a celebration of Black identity. Abdurraqib uses particular events and personal experiences, such as a live performance by a Black punk band or reminiscences about Wu Tang Clan, to explore themes such as Black anger and the entertainment industry’s long history of exploiting and abusing Black artists.

In addition to his writing on music, Abdurraqib is a noted poet. Pop culture and music feature heavily in his poetry, which ranges across subjects both personal and public and addresses themes of race, class, and the politics of our present moment. Omnivorous in his influences and prolific in his output, Abdurraqib is forging a new form of cultural criticism, one that is informed by lived experience and offers incisive social and artistic critiques.

BIOGRAPHY
Hanif Abdurraqib is a graduate of Beechcroft High School in Columbus, OH. His additional publications include two collections of poetry, A Fortune for Your Disaster (2019) and The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (2016). He is the creator of the music and archival website 68to05, which enables users to write about and share music, and his poetry and essays have been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Brooklyn Magazine, and the Paris Review, among others. He is the Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence at Butler University for the 2021–2022 academic year.


哈尼夫-阿卜杜拉齐布
音乐评论家、散文家和诗人 | 2021级
通过流行音乐和自传的视角，形成了独特的文化和艺术批评风格。


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标题
音乐评论家、散文家和诗人
地点
俄亥俄州哥伦布市
年龄
获奖时38岁
关注领域
小说和非小说写作, 诗歌
网站
abdurraqib.com
68to05：一个播放列表项目
社会
聊天室
推特
2021年9月28日发布
关于哈尼夫的作品
哈尼夫-阿卜杜拉齐布是一位音乐评论家、散文家和诗人，他用流行音乐的视角来审视产生和消费音乐的更广泛的文化。他的写作风格亲切而温馨，与读者建立了直接的联系，他将自传、社会历史和对歌曲、专辑或表演的具体技术和情感方面的敏锐洞察力融合在一起。

阿卜杜拉齐布的第一本文集《在他们杀死我们之前，他们无法杀死我们》（2017年）中的许多文章都是他在做记者时写的评论和文章；这些文章合在一起，形成了对自我身份和黑人身体在警察和其他人手中持续遭受痛苦的深刻个人思考。例如，他写道，在参观了密苏里州弗格森市迈克尔-布朗的纪念馆后几天，他参加了布鲁斯-斯普林斯廷的音乐会，并努力调和他对音乐的技术欣赏与歌词中讲述的种族化和性别化故事。在他的《雨中前行：给A Tribe Called Quest的笔记》（2019年）一书中，阿卜杜拉齐布追溯了这个先锋嘻哈团体的三十年历史，以及它在更大的嘻哈运动中的影响。他在写作时对这个团体有着明显的感情，他对这个团体所处的社会和政治氛围的评估包括对这些力量如何影响他的童年和他的音乐经历的思考。有些章节是以个人信件的形式写给该团体的成员，而其他章节则分析了该团体不断变化的审美实践，例如他们在早期发行的产品中广泛使用采样的方式和原因，后来被限制了。Abdurraqib在他最近的书《美国的小恶魔》中更深入地研究了历史。赞扬黑人表演的笔记》（2021）。他对音乐、电影、舞蹈和喜剧中的关键艺术家和文化时刻进行了发人深省的观察--从十九世纪以黑脸为白人观众表演的吟游诗人威廉-亨利-莱恩，到碧昂斯在2016年超级碗上的亮相以及舞蹈和音乐电视节目《灵魂列车》，形成了对黑人的集中分析和对黑人身份的庆祝。Abdurraqib利用特定的事件和个人经历，如黑人朋克乐队的现场表演或对Wu Tang Clan的回忆，来探讨黑人的愤怒和娱乐业剥削和虐待黑人艺术家的悠久历史等主题。

除了在音乐方面的写作，Abdurraqib还是一位著名的诗人。流行文化和音乐在他的诗歌中占了很大比重，他的诗歌涵盖了个人和公共的主题，涉及种族、阶级和我们当下的政治等主题。阿卜杜拉基布影响广泛，作品丰富，他正在打造一种新的文化批评形式，这种形式以生活经验为基础，并提供精辟的社会和艺术批评。

个人简历
哈尼夫-阿卜杜拉齐布毕业于俄亥俄州哥伦布市的比奇克罗夫特高中。他的其他出版物包括两本诗集《A Fortune for Your Disaster》（2019）和《The Crown Ain't Worth Much》（2016）。他是音乐和档案网站68to05的创建者，该网站使用户能够撰写和分享音乐，他的诗歌和散文已在《纽约时报》、《纽约客》、《布鲁克林杂志》和《巴黎评论》等媒体上发表。他是2021-2022学年在巴特勒大学的布斯-塔金顿驻校作家。