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.
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.
Elijah Wald is a musician and writer who has toured on five continents and written thousands of articles for newspapers, magazines, and album notes. His ten published books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, and The Blues: A Very Short Introduction. He has taught blues history at UCLA and won multiple awards, including a 2002 Grammy.
Inhaltsangabe
1. A Trip Down Twelfth Street 2. The Name of the Game 3. Singing the Dozens 4. The Blue Dozens 5. The Literary Dozens 6. If You Grin, You're In 7. The Martial Art of Rhyming 8. Around the World with Your Mother 9. African Roots and Branches 10. The Dozens and Race 11. Why Do We (They) Do that? 12. Rapping, Snapping, and Dueling on YouTube
1. A Trip Down Twelfth Street 2. The Name of the Game 3. Singing the Dozens 4. The Blue Dozens 5. The Literary Dozens 6. If You Grin, You're In 7. The Martial Art of Rhyming 8. Around the World with Your Mother 9. African Roots and Branches 10. The Dozens and Race 11. Why Do We (They) Do that? 12. Rapping, Snapping, and Dueling on YouTube
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