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Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap Wald, Elijah (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, Medford, MA)
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Wald, Elijah (Independent scholar, Independent scholar, Medford, MA)
In Talking About Your Mama, Elijah Wald has turned his attention to the deep roots of rap in American culture with a wide-ranging look a street tradition called "the dozens," where African American music began. Wald traces the form and its variations throughout more than a century of African American culture and music, from minstrelsy and the blues through to jazz and hip-hop.
264 pages, 15 b/w photographs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 1, 2014 |
| Original release date | 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199394043 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 15 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |