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Talking 'Bout Your Mama

Paperback • 2012 • 1. edition

Talking 'Bout Your Mama

By Elijah Wald

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About the book

From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously funny, outrageously inventive insult game known as "the dozens." So what is the dozens? At its simplest, it's a comic chain of "yo' mama" jokes. At its most complex, it's an intricate form of s...Show more

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9780199942831

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic US

Published year

2012

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1

Original title

Talking 'Bout Your Mama

Format

Paperback

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