Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Reading Jackson's essay, studying the toasts in their variations, and listening to performances of the toasts will be rewarding for anyone interested in essential 20th century African American oral culture and contemporary American popular culture. At various points in the book, efforts are mad...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of African American History 2006, Vol.91 (2), p.236-238 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Reading Jackson's essay, studying the toasts in their variations, and listening to performances of the toasts will be rewarding for anyone interested in essential 20th century African American oral culture and contemporary American popular culture. At various points in the book, efforts are made to explain the complexity of toasts in comparison to other cultural genres: poetry, speechmaking, signifying, drama, jokes, narration, street theater, and literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1548-1867 2153-5086 |