GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN: NOTES TO A TRIBE CALLED QUEST

Book ID/图书代码： 13590019C00015

English Summary/英文概要： How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself.

Abdurraqib traces the Tribe’s creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that―like the low end, the bass―are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人们如何向一个叫做“奎斯特”的部落表达敬意呢?这个极具影响力的说唱乐队将爵士乐带入了这一流派，复兴了永恒的节奏，创作了《低端理论》和《午夜掠夺者》等杰作。在他们上一张专辑的17年后，他们用一张紧张的，有社会意识的唱片使自己复活，我们从这里得到了它…感谢你们在2016年大选之后，在球迷最需要的时候提供的服务。诗人兼散文家哈尼•阿卜杜拉吉卜深入研究了乐队的历史，并从自己的经历中总结出独特的声音是如何在他这样的粉丝中产生共鸣的。结果就像饶舌乐队本身一样雄心勃勃，改变了风格。

阿卜杜拉吉卜追溯了这个部落的创作生涯，从他们作为以非洲为中心的说唱团体“土著语言”的早期，到他们的前三张经典专辑，再到他们最终的解散和长时间的中断。他们的作品被置于上世纪90年代更大范围的说唱乐坛的大背景下，其中一个被采样法颠覆了，采样法迫使说唱音乐的制作方法进行了重新设计，东海岸和西海岸的竞争威胁到了这一流派的毁灭，一些唱片公司也从关注团体转向关注个人的MCs。贯穿整个故事，阿卜杜拉吉卜将音乐和文化历史与他们的街头影响联系起来。不管他是在回忆1998年宣布部落解散的消息来源杂志封面，还是在乐队成员菲菲•道格去世后给部落写私人信件，阿卜杜拉吉卜都在探寻一个叫做奎斯特的部落更深层次的真相;真理就像低音部一样，不是简单地在头脑中听到，而是在胸中感觉到。（WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：“阿卜杜拉吉卜的书没有试图用一臂的长度，学术的方法来分析这个团体和它的音乐;相反，他从他自己的经历中写道的通常是对乐队成员的提问或赞赏的公开信。这是一个大胆的设想，但如果在这个过程中，这本书失去了一点保留的客观性，它会收获更多:一种情感基础，解释了为什么这个群体对作者如此重要，进而解释了为什么他们的音乐对读者也很重要。”来源:前言综述

“即使是那些对音乐知之甚少的人，也会在这里学到很多有意义的东西，也许会在这个过程中学会如何爱上它。”——来源:这个故事

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这是第一部关于一个名为奎斯特的部落的编年史。奎斯特是一个富有远见、屡获殊荣的团体，他们的爵士乐唱片和具有社会意识的歌词在20世纪90年代初彻底改变了说唱乐。

"Abdurraqib’s book doesn’t attempt an arm’s length, scholarly approach to analyzing the group and its music; instead, Abdurraqib speaks from his own experiences, often in the form of questioning or appreciative open letters to members of the band. It’s a bold conceit, but if the book loses a bit of reserved objectivity in the process, it gains much more: an emotional grounding for why the group was so important to the author, and, by extension, why their music should matter to readers, too." Source: Foreword Reviews

"Even those who know little about the music will learn much of significance here, perhaps learning how to love it in the process." Source: Kirkus

A New York Times Best Seller

**Over 28,000 copies sold**

**UK reprint rights (Melville House), Spanish translation rights for Spain (Alpha Decay), and Spanish translation rights for Latin America (Montacerdos) sold**

The first chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest—the visionary, award-winning group whose jazz-infused records and socially conscious lyrics revolutionized rap in the early 1990s.

About the Author/作者介绍： 阿卜杜拉吉卜是《纽约时报》的畅销书作家和巴特勒大学MFA项目的访问作家，是一位著名的诗人和文化评论家，他的作品曾出现在《纽约时报》、MTV新闻和其他媒体上。手推车奖的候选人,《他们杀不了我们除非意外》的作者，,这是包含在《芝加哥论坛报》的2017年秋季的必读25本书籍列表中,受到评论家的认可,包括《出版人周刊》的主演审查。他目前在为《他们不跳舞》节目而忙碌，那是美国黑人表演的历史。

A New York Times best-selling author and visiting writer in the MFA program at Butler University, Abdurraqib is an acclaimed poet and cultural critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, MTV News, and other outlets. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, he is the author of the highly praised poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, which was included in the Chicago Tribune’s 25 Must-Read Books list for fall 2017 and received recognition from reviewers coast-to-coast, including a starred review in Publishers Weekly. He is currently at work on They Don’t Dance No Mo’, a history of black performance in the United States.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Spanish language in Spain (Alpha Decay) UK reprint (Melville House), Korean language (Caracal); French rights pending.

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