Talking 'Bout Your Mama - The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap - Paperback - 2015

In Talking About Your Mama, Elijah Wald has turned his attention to the deep roots of rap in American culture with a wideranging look a street tradition called the dozens, where African American music began. Wald traces the form and its variations throughout more than a century of African American culture and music, from minstrelsy and the blues through to jazz and hiphop.

Year of publication: 2015
Pagination: 264 pages, 15 b/w photographs
Format: Paperback