They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Expanded Edition - Paperback

Hanif Abdurraqib's essays on music, identity, and American life. He writes about Carly Rae Jepsen, Chance the Rapper, Bruce Springsteen with the same care he brings to grief and race. Expanded edition with three new essays.

Abdurraqib understands that music and politics, joy and suffering, are inseparable. He writes about what we listen to and what that means about who we are. The essays are personal and cultural at once. They're brilliant and moving. This expanded edition includes new work on recent years.

American studies, music history, and African American literature all assign this. It's the book that shows how to write about culture seriously.

DETAILS
- Author: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Paperback, expanded edition
- Essays on music and identity
- Includes 3 new essays and afterword