Talking 'bout Your Mama

Talking 'bout Your Mama
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780199394043
ISBN-13 : 0199394040
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Book Synopsis Talking 'bout Your Mama by : Elijah Wald

Download or read book Talking 'bout Your Mama written by Elijah Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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