{"id":49711,"date":"2018-11-07T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49711"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:25:52","slug":"end-of-all-music-will-host-poet-and-essayist-hanif-abdurraqib-on-wednesday-november-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/end-of-all-music-will-host-poet-and-essayist-hanif-abdurraqib-on-wednesday-november-14\/","title":{"rendered":"End of All Music Will Host Poet and Essayist Hanif Abdurraqib on Wednesday, November 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Square Books\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The End of All Music\u00a0<\/strong>are teaming up\u00a0to host author\u00a0<strong>Hanif Abdurraqib<\/strong>\u00a0at the record store for this awesome event. Hanif will discuss his excellent book of music-related essays,\u00a0<em><strong>They Can\u2019t Kill Us Until They Kill Us<\/strong><\/em>, then EOAM will spin some records while he signs copies of the book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This event will be held at the record store on Wednesday, November 14 at 7 pm. Square Books will be on site selling copies of the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, <strong>Hanif Abdurraqib<\/strong>&#8216;s is a voice that matters.\u00a0Whether he&#8217;s attending a <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> concert the day after visiting <strong>Michael Brown&#8217;<\/strong>s grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">C<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">arly Rae Jepsen<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the wake of the nightclub attacks in <strong>Paris,<\/strong> he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of Black Americans, <strong>Abdurraqib<\/strong> recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In essays that have been published by the<em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>MTV<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Pitchfork,<\/em>\u00a0among others\u2014along with original, previously unreleased essays\u2014Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in <em>Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American,<\/em> and various other journals. His essays and music criticism has been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New York Times, and MTV News, where was a columnist. His first full length poetry collection,\u00a0<em>The Crown Ain\u2019t Worth Much<\/em>, was published in 2016 by Button Poetry and is a finalist for the Hurston\/Wright Award for Poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Books\u00a0and\u00a0The End of All Music\u00a0are teaming up\u00a0to host author\u00a0Hanif Abdurraqib\u00a0at the record store for this awesome event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239,1],"tags":[13495,315,7569,13493,13494,4782,602],"class_list":["post-49711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-criticism","tag-end-of-all-music","tag-essays","tag-hanif-abdurraqib","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-08-EOAM-feat.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}