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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
- African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Engelsk Paperback
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
- African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Engelsk Paperback

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The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

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."

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
370
ISBN-13:
9781438496559
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438496559
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 2024
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 2024
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