The Resource Talking 'bout your mama : the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap, Elijah Wald
Talking 'bout your mama : the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap, Elijah Wald
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- Summary
- "At its simplest, the dozens is a comic concatenation of "yo' mama" jokes. At its most complex, it is a form of social interaction that reaches back to African ceremonial rituals. Whether considered vernacular poetry, verbal dueling, a test of street cool, or just a mess of dirty insults, the dozens has been a basic building block of African-American culture. A game which could inspire raucous laughter or escalate to violence, it provided a wellspring of rhymes, attitude, and raw humor that has influenced pop musicians from Jelly Roll Morton to Ice Cube. 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 seminal 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. A forbidden language beneath the surface of American popular culture, the dozens links children's clapping rhymes to low-down juke joints and the most modern street verse to the earliest African American folklore."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 244 pages
- Note
- Hardcover edition published under the title: The dozens : a history of rap's mama
- Contents
-
- A trip down Twelfth Street
- The name of the game
- Singing the dozens
- Country dozens and dirty blues
- The literary dozens
- Studying the street
- The martial art of rhyming
- Around the world with your mother
- African roots
- Slipping across the color line
- Why do they (we) do that?
- Rapping, snapping, and battling
- Isbn
- 9780199394043
- Label
- Talking 'bout your mama : the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap
- Title
- Talking 'bout your mama
- Title remainder
- the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap
- Statement of responsibility
- Elijah Wald
- Title variation
- Talking about your mama
- Subject
-
- African American wit and humor
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Music
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- Afro-amerikaner
- Dozens (Game)
- Dozens (Game)
- Hiphop (musik) -- historia
- History
- Humor
- Invective
- Invective -- Humor
- Invektiv
- Music
- Rap (Music)
- Rap (Music) -- History
- Rap -- History
- Samhällsliv
- Humor
- African American wit and humor
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "At its simplest, the dozens is a comic concatenation of "yo' mama" jokes. At its most complex, it is a form of social interaction that reaches back to African ceremonial rituals. Whether considered vernacular poetry, verbal dueling, a test of street cool, or just a mess of dirty insults, the dozens has been a basic building block of African-American culture. A game which could inspire raucous laughter or escalate to violence, it provided a wellspring of rhymes, attitude, and raw humor that has influenced pop musicians from Jelly Roll Morton to Ice Cube. 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 seminal 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. A forbidden language beneath the surface of American popular culture, the dozens links children's clapping rhymes to low-down juke joints and the most modern street verse to the earliest African American folklore."--Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wald, Elijah
- Dewey number
- 398.7089/96073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN6231.N5
- LC item number
- W35 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dozens (Game)
- African Americans
- Rap (Music)
- African Americans
- African American wit and humor
- Invective
- African Americans
- Rap
- Afro-amerikaner
- Humor
- Invektiv
- Samhällsliv
- Hiphop (musik)
- African American wit and humor
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Dozens (Game)
- Invective
- Rap (Music)
- Label
- Talking 'bout your mama : the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap, Elijah Wald
- Note
- Hardcover edition published under the title: The dozens : a history of rap's mama
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A trip down Twelfth Street -- The name of the game -- Singing the dozens -- Country dozens and dirty blues -- The literary dozens -- Studying the street -- The martial art of rhyming -- Around the world with your mother -- African roots -- Slipping across the color line -- Why do they (we) do that? -- Rapping, snapping, and battling
- Control code
- ocn879527844
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199394043
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780199394043
- (OCoLC)879527844
- Label
- Talking 'bout your mama : the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap, Elijah Wald
- Note
- Hardcover edition published under the title: The dozens : a history of rap's mama
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A trip down Twelfth Street -- The name of the game -- Singing the dozens -- Country dozens and dirty blues -- The literary dozens -- Studying the street -- The martial art of rhyming -- Around the world with your mother -- African roots -- Slipping across the color line -- Why do they (we) do that? -- Rapping, snapping, and battling
- Control code
- ocn879527844
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199394043
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780199394043
- (OCoLC)879527844
Subject
- African American wit and humor
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Music
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- Afro-amerikaner
- Dozens (Game)
- Dozens (Game)
- Hiphop (musik) -- historia
- History
- Humor
- Invective
- Invective -- Humor
- Invektiv
- Music
- Rap (Music)
- Rap (Music) -- History
- Rap -- History
- Samhällsliv
- Humor
- African American wit and humor
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