REDCAT Presents Author Greg Tate 5/4

REDCAT's conversation series continues with Greg Tate: The Spiritual Crisis in Contemporary Black Art, Politics and PsychoAnalysis. With an introduction by award-winning poet and performer Douglas Kearney, Tate's illuminating talk will be held in the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8:30pm and followed by a post-lecture Q&A.

The longtime Village Voice cultural critic, pioneer of hip-hop journalism and adventurous music director is on hand for a rigorous talk that locates a crisis today in black creative self-conception and representation--an exigency now being countered by new black theater, Afropunk and young black visual artists. Tracing a history of the recent past, Tate's incisive analysis connects the depoliticization and disenchantment of black performative expression to the hypercapitalist mass-marketing of black cultural output that boomed in the 1990s.

Tate has contributed to numerous magazines, journals and museum catalogues; his books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk and Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture. He is currently working on a new book about the Godfather of Soul, provisionally entitled James Brown's Body and the Revolution of the Mind.

Greg Tate: The Spiritual Crisis in Contemporary Black Art, Politics and PsychoAnalysis takes place at REDCAT on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students with current I.D.) and are available at www.redcat.org or by calling 213-237-2800. REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).