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020    0199394040 
020    9780199394043|q(paperback) 
041 0  eng  
082 04 398.7089/96073|223/swe 
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092 0  398.7|bengelska 
100 1  Wald, Elijah,|eauthor 
240 10 Dozens, a history of rap's mama 
245 10 Talking 'bout your mama :|bthe dozens, snaps, and the deep
       roots of rap /|cElijah Wald 
246 3  Talking about your mama 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c2014 
300    xi, 244 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Hardcover edition published under the title: The dozens : 
       a history of rap's mama 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  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 
520    "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 
650  0 African American wit and humor 
650  0 Invective|vHumor 
650  0 Dozens (Game) 
650  0 African Americans|xSocial life and customs 
650  0 Rap (Music)|xHistory 
650  0 African Americans|xMusic 
650  7 Afro-amerikaner|2sao 
650  7 Humor|2sao 
650  7 Invektiv|2sao 
650  7 Samhällsliv|2sao 
650  7 Hiphop (musik)|xhistoria|2sao 
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