PositivePittsburgh Post-Gazette\"In framing a Tribe Called Quest as underdogs, Mr. Abdurraqib gets at what made them great. More specifically, in Go Ahead in the Rain, the author gets at what made a Tribe Called Quest great to him when he was a kid struggling to find his place and his voice ... Mr. Abdurraqib offers a level of historical understanding that only a passionate fan could deliver. He astutely contextualizes a Tribe Called Quest’s position on Hip-Hop’s shifting terrain at any given moment in their run and writes insightfully on little-discussed aspects of the group’s history ... For all his mastery of the subject, Mr. Abdurraqib writes to tell his own story. He covers a lot of ground, but his real achievement is in the erasure of distance between artist and audience.\
David Bianculli
PositiveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMr. Bianculli goes on to offer illuminating profiles of the creators that succeeded in those genres. Some of these will read like playbooks to those who aspire to the television industry. Others will read as cautionary tales ... With this combination of historical perspective, critical insight and effective interviews, Mr. Bianculli makes a persuasive argument for television as a medium that is evolving constantly, however slowly. The profiles, especially, show that influence and inspiration come from places that might not be readily apparent ... Mr. Bianculli is convincing in his argument that television has never been better, but he doesn’t offer much insight into what comes next ... While imminently readable, Mr. Bianculli’s book is ultimately academic. The overview-show profile-creator profile format of the Platinum Age of Television makes for a thorough account of the subject matter, but does give rise to considerable overlap.
