Various Collected By Bruce Jackson - Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry From Black Oral Tradition FLAC

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1976 album released on rounder records of toasts, proto rap, and dirty african american folklore collected by Bruce Jackson. Spoken word album is a companion to Bruce Jackson's book of the same name Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1974. This CD is the reissue of the LP that accompanied the book an anthology of Toasts of the same name by Bruce Jackson. It includes examples of some of the most classic Toasts. Read more. Album 1998 15 Songs. Get Started. United States. Here collected are toasts of the black American oral tradition. It is obvious that herein lie the roots of modern rap in its most nihilist of expressions. The bulk of these recordings were made in the most fertile breeding ground of this violent and graphic poetry: jails. Toasts are probably the only living form of oral narrative poetry in the U. they represent a vital genre of black folklore. They come from various sources: from streetcorners to jails, from barrooms to academic halls. The toasts celebrate mythological figures from African-American culture, including the famed bad man Stackolee who is said to have murdered a man over a Stetson hat the famous exploits of the Signifying Monkey, who outsmarts his stronger opponents in the forest by using his native wits and stories of the loss of the Titanic, famed in black folklore be. This is a book of toasts-narrative poems from black American oral tradition. Along with black folk sermons and lyrics of work-songs, spirituals, and blues, the toasts comprise an extraordinary body of folk poetry matched hardly anywhere in the world. I've never met anyone who knows why these poems are called toasts. The best guess I've heard is, They're poems and most drinking toasts are poems, which is not true at all. Jackson, Bruce, comp. Publication date. Folk poetry, American, Toasts African American folk poetry, Narrative poetry, American, American poetry - African American authors, African Americans - Poetry. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. inlibrary printdisabled oliverwendellholmeslibrary phillipsacademy americana. Digitizing sponsor. Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me Narrative Poetry from the Black Oral Tradition. Bruce Jackson. Signifying Monkey, No. Your browser does not support the audio element. Partytime Monkey. Poolshooting Monkey. Hobo Ben. Get in Out of the Rain. Brock Hankton. As this collection, and Jackson's astute analyses make clear, black oral poetry and folklore are great literature. Funny as all get out, full of biting wit and dazzling wordplay, this book drops more science than Einstein while proving the genius of black folk who created meaning and defended their lives through signifying words. Bruce Jackson has been the Director, Center for Studies in American Culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo since 1972, and is the Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture and a Distinguished Professor there. He is the author of numerous other books on folklore and criminal law, as well as fiction. Synopsis: Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance. Bibliographic Details. Title: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me:. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. Stock Image. Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrati