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Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0415969964
Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance.
Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438496573
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as "Stackolee," "The Titanic," "Signifying Monkey," "Dance of the Freaks," and dozens more. This unexpurgated edition offers the raw, vibrant, and still startling imagery of these toasts shaped by decades of oral transmission through the voices of countless rhymers. Just like rap, the toasting tradition enabled previously unheard or stifled topics, including racism, sexual exploitation, economic deprivation, and social oppression, to be expressed in a form that embodied multiple layers of meaning. Jackson helped preserve a rapidly dying art form to ensure that it would be available for many generations to come. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley, "All you Hip Hop heads need to know this book if you want to know your roots."
Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783722788
Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0415969972
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Charles E. Silberman
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Law
ISBN : 0394483065
Analyzes the current increase in criminal violence in the United States and examines the criminal justice system.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UIUC:30112001817896
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000099743076
Author : Robert Sacré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015057483094
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UVA:X001171923
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American art
ISBN : UCSC:32106017069011
Some special issues devoted to the literatures of other minorities.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B5095572
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015066119002
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : MINN:31951P009075469
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000087184192
Offers approximately 270 essays on topics in American folklife as diverse as chain letters, the Internet, Little Havana, fans of heavy metal music, Wiccans, and zydeco.
Author : Patricia Alveda Liggins Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010323686