Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation

by Kermit E. Campbell

A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.

Because of the increasing influence of hip hop music and culture on a generation raised during its dominance, it is important to address hip hop and African American vernacular not merely as elements of folk and popular cultures but as rhetoric worthy of serious scrutiny. In Gettin' Our Groove On, Kermit E. Campbell not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081432925X
• ISBN13: 9780814329252
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"