Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap by Elijah Wald

Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap

Elijah Wald

264 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective slow-paced
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Elijah Wald has turned his attention to the deep roots of rap in American culture with a wide-ranging look a street tradition called 'the dozens', where African American music began. Wald traces the form and its variations throughout more than a c...

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