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“Rapping” in the black ghetto

Making it in the ghetto depends heavily on verbal ability and style

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  • Deep Down in the Jungle by Roger D. Abrahams (Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1964) is a collection and analysis of black narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia.

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  • Urban Blues by Charles Keil (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966) is an analysis of the contemporary blues man as an “expressive male role within urban lower-class Negro culture.”

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  • Pimp, the Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim (Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967) is a revealing insight into lower class life-styles.

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  1. Department of linguistics, Northeastern Illinois State College, Chicago

    Thomas Kochman (Assistant professor)

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Kochman, T. “Rapping” in the black ghetto. Trans-action 6, 26–34 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02806272

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