![]() ![]() Bo Schmo, a part-time autocrat monarchist and guru and his neo-socialist realist gang. Set this dream up as a classic Western, invert and twist it, add various funky characters: 1. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree." ― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Imagine an acid-trip dream that involves Loop Garoo Kid, a bad-ass black cowboy who is a master of Neohoodooism. "All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western.more ![]() Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American life. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed "Folks. ![]()
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