Rappin' and stylin' out, communication in urban Black America. / Edited by Thomas Kochman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kochman, Thomas, compiler.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Communication.

African Americans.

African Americans--Languages.

Interpersonal relations.

Social exchange.

Black English.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 424 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Rappin' and stylin' out; communication in urban black America.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1972]

Contents:

Preface. Black culture on black terms: a rejection of the social pathology model / Joan and Stephen Baratz

Nonverbal Communication. Time and cool people / John Horton; Nonverbal communication among Afro-Americans: an initial classification / Benjamin G. Cooke; Black folk music / Elkin T. Sithole; Motion and feeling through music / Charles Keil; Dynamics of a black audience / Annette Powell Williams

Vocabulary and Culture. Names, graffiti, and culture / Herbert Kohl and James Hinton; The language of soul / Claude Brown; The vocabulary of race / Ken Johnson; "Inversion" in black communication / Grace Sims Holt; The kinetic element in black idiom / Thomas Kochman; The African element in American English / David Dalby

Expressive Uses of Language. Stylin' outta the black pulpit / Grace Sims Holt; Street talk / H. Rap Brown; Shoe-shine on 63rd / James Maryland; Joking: the training of the man of words in talking broad / Roger D. Abrahams; Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman; Rules for ritual insults / William Labov; Signifying, loud-talking and marking / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan; Black poetry-where it's at / Carolyn Rodgers

Expressive Role Behavior. Roles and ideologies / R. Lincoln Keiser; The greaser is a "bad ass"; the gowster is a "muthah": an analysis of two urban youth roles / Herbert G. Ellis and Stanley M. Newman; Aspiration / Melvin S. Brookins; Foreword from Pimp: The Story of My Life / Iceberg Slim; The game / Woodie King, Jr.; Lovers and exploiters / Elliot Liebow; The hustling chic / Julius Hudson.

Notes:

"Originally published in a clothbound edition, 1972."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks copy is a paperbound "Illini Book".

ISBN:

0252002377

0252004132

OCLC:

532000