art, antagonism, and strategy #4

Many of you are writing about why an artist project would be so antagonistic to its audience, and why the artists are so critical of their audience. Consider why and how comedians like Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle make jokes about white people. Consider this quote about comedian Richard Pryor, as the author compares him to Bill Cosby. You may see the original article here:
http://www.popmatters.com/film/features/051215-richardpryor.shtml

But for all of those black performers who sought to make themselves palatable to whites, there were other examples of folk, who poet and Miles Davis biographer Quincy Troupe describes as "unreconstructed"; folk who never sought to remix blackness for white comfort or consumption. While such "unreconstructed-ness" is largely a myth -- we all capitulate to the so-called "white gaze" in one form of another to gain access to institutions we deem important to our well being -- it helped create mythic icons, which became synonymous with not dancing the dance of racial ingratiation. Miles Davis is the most visible example of this.

Think about expanding your thinking about these projects to pop culture that you know: music, movies, comedy, tv.