Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me

Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415969963
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me written by Bruce Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113587929X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter The Toast World -- chapter The Toasts -- chapter Books and Articles Cited.

Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438496575
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition written by Bruce Jackson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783722788
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : Bruce Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415969970
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me written by Bruce Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Luigi Monge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496841778
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasn’t That a Mighty Day written by Luigi Monge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles E. Silberman
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 : 9780394483061
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199394040
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Total Pages : 540 pages
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