Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113587929X
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Chapter The Toast World -- chapter The Toasts -- chapter Books and Articles Cited.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113587929X
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Chapter The Toast World -- chapter The Toasts -- chapter Books and Articles Cited.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
Author: Bruce JacksonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438496575
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as "Stackolee," "The Titanic," "Signifying Monkey," "Dance of the Freaks," and dozens more. This unexpurgated edition offers the raw, vibrant, and still startling imagery of these toasts shaped by decades of oral transmission through the voices of countless rhymers. Just like rap, the toasting tradition enabled previously unheard or stifled topics, including racism, sexual exploitation, economic deprivation, and social oppression, to be expressed in a form that embodied multiple layers of meaning. Jackson helped preserve a rapidly dying art form to ensure that it would be available for many generations to come. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley, "All you Hip Hop heads need to know this book if you want to know your roots."
Wasn’t That a Mighty Day
Author: Luigi MongePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496841778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the book offers sustained attention to how both Black and white communities responded to many of the tragic events that occurred before the mid-1950s. Through detailed textual analysis, Luigi Monge explores songs on natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes); accidental disasters (sinkings, fires, train wrecks, explosions, and air disasters); and infestations, epidemics, and diseases (the boll weevil, the jake leg, and influenza). Analyzed songs cover some of the most well-known disasters of the time period from the sinking of the Titanic and the 1930 drought to the Hindenburg accident, and more. Thirty previously unreleased African American disaster songs appear in this volume for the first time, revealing their pertinence to the relevant disasters. By comparing the song lyrics to critical moments in history, Monge is able to explore how deeply and directly these catastrophes affected Black communities; how African Americans in general, and blues and gospel singers in particular, faced and reacted to disaster; whether these collective tragedies prompted different reactions among white people and, if so, why; and more broadly, how the role of memory in recounting and commenting on historical and cultural facts shaped African American society from 1879 to 1955.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
Author: Bruce JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice
Author: Charles E. SilbermanPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN: 9780394483061
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Analyzes the current increase in criminal violence in the United States and examines the criminal justice system.
Negro Digest
Author: Saints and Sinners
Author: Robert SacréPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Callaloo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Some special issues devoted to the literatures of other minorities.
American Humor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Author: