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- Works
- 22
Top works
- The Baby and the bathwater, or
- ביטולה של העבודה
- The Right to Be Greedy
- Abolition of Work
- Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illuminations
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Bob Black is nationally-renowned bluegrass banjo player who has recently written a book, "Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe." (University of Illinois Press). In 2002, he was awarded the Iowa Arts Council’s Arts Build Communities Award in the Traditional Arts. Born in Des Moines, Bob began playing banjo at age 15. He moved to Iowa City in the 1970s to play in The Bluegrass Union, a band that also included fiddler Alan Murphy. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Blac
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bob
- Family name
- Black
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Occupation
- essayist
- Educated at
- University of Michigan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Abolition of Work
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Movement
- post-left anarchy
- Image
- Bob Black, 2011 BAAB, cropped.jpg
- Political ideology
- anarchism
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- influenced by
- Walter Benjamin
- date of birth
- 1951-01-04
- birth name
- Robert Charles Black, Jr.
- time period
- 20th-century philosophy
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