Talking 'bout your mama
the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap
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Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100199394040
- ISBN-139780199394043
- OCLC Control Number1001862526
- OCLC Control Number879527844
- Better World Books9780199394043
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27180261M
Classifications
- DDC398.7089/96073
- LCCPN6231.N5 W35 2014
- LCCML3531
Alternate Titles
- Dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap
- Talking about your mama
- Dozens - a history of rap's mama.
Description
A game which could inspire raucous laughter or escalate to violence, the dozens provided a wellspring of rhymes, attitude, and raw humor that has influenced pop musicians from Jelly Roll Morton and Robert Johnson to Tupac Shakur and Jay Z. Wald explores the depth of the dozens' roots, looking at mother-insulting and verbal combat from Greenland to the sources of the Niger, and shows its breadth of influence in the writings of Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston; the comedy of Richard Pryor and George Carlin; the dark humor of the blues; the hip slang and competitive jamming of jazz; and most recently in the improvisatory battling of rap.
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