Remembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and teacher
Photo: Nisha Sondhe/Duke University Press The last dispatch from the alien/agent provocateur known as Greg Tate beamed out from perhaps his most inconspicuous dwelling. No #tbt dedicated to the Burnt Orange Arkestra, the freaky jazz-funk crew he founded and conducted, bringing their pyromaniac improvisations to stage; no perspicacious pull quote on Facebook via The Guardian, his digital paper of choice; no brief, breezy boost of Black art brio across the diaspora.
This was the Tate I came to know, perhaps oddly for him, in an office space. He arrived at Williams College my senior year, in 2015, as a visiting lecturer in Africana studies; my adviser, Professor James Manigault-Bryant, who took up the department-chair gig at the time, introduced us. I was skittish, wondering how this dude ended up in bumfuck Massachusetts — a question my Houstonian ass could’ve equally posed inward.
Tate, who was born in 1957 in Dayton, Ohio, had turned himself into an East Coast staple, studying journalism at Howard University and then moving to New York shortly after graduating in 1981 just as punk, hip-hop, and various derivations of blues, jazz, and dance flooded the nightlife scene.
Tate’s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces.
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