{"product_id":"rappin-and-stylin-out-communication-in-urban-black-america-9780252002373","title":"Rappin' And Stylin' Out * Communication In Urban Black America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRappin' And Stylin' Out * Communication In Urban Black America\u003c\/strong\u003e by Kochman, Thomas [Ed]; Rap Brown; Iceberg. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780252002373.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this anthology, Thomas Kochman includes articles which reflect an awareness of black culture norms. In portraying and analyzing the communicative habits and expressive lifestyle of adult urban blacks, Kochman hopes to disclose the inside sociocultural view: what urban black people themselves see and value in their life situations. He has selected articles that not only describe specific communicative behavior, but reproduce the actual contexts in which such behavior occurs: the street, the clubhouse, the shoeshine stand, the park, the pool hall, the cafe.\n\nThis anthology includes: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: Nonverbal Communication among Afro-Americans: An Initial Classification (Cooke) * Black culture on black terms: a rejection of the social pathology model (Baratz) * Black folk music (Sithole) * Motion and feeling through music (Keil) * Dynamics of a black audience (Williams)\n\nVOCABULARY AND CULTURE: Names, graffiti, and culture (Hinton \u0026amp; Kohl) * The language of soul (Claude Brown) * The vocabulary of race (Ken Johnson) * Inversion in black communication (Holt) * the kinetic element in black idiom (Kochman) * The African element in American English (Dalby)\n\nEXPRESSIVE USES OF LANGUAGE: Stylin outta the black pulpit (Holt) * Street talk (H. Rap Brown) * Shoe-shine on 634d (Maryland) * Joking: the training of the man of words in talking broad (Abrahams) * Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior (Kochman) * Rules for ritual insults (Labov) * Signifying, loud-talking, and marking (Mitchell-Kernan) * Black poetry...where its at (Rodgers)\n\nEXPRESSIVE ROLE BEHAVIOR: Roles and ideologies (Keiser) * The greaser is a bad ass; the gowster is a muthah: an analysis of two urban youth roles (Ellis and Newman) * Aspiration (Brookins) * Foreword from Pimp: The Story of My Life (Iceberg Slim) * The game (Woodie King, Jr.) * Lovers and exploiters (Elliot Liebow) * The hustling ethic (Julius Hudson)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44990021238837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252002377","price":541.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252002373_57a9eaee-c6e6-4110-88c2-3dc4dd450d30.jpg?v=1778932214","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rappin-and-stylin-out-communication-in-urban-black-america-9780252002373","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}