Gettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation
Kermit E. Campbell
African American Life Series
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“What Campbell does with the idea of vernacular discourses as related to Hip hop is highly original. He not only makes the case—quite rigorously—that African American vernacular discourses, particularly Hip hop, are worthy objects for scholarly scrutiny, but his own vernacular-inflected prose is powerful ‘testifyin’ for the efficacy of his perspective. The topic is timely, definitely important in terms of practical applications, and Campbell, because of his unique and thorough grounding in both the African American vernacular and the Western rhetorical traditions, can address it in sparkling fashion.”
—Keith Gilyard, Pennsylvania State University, author of Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens, Let’s Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language and Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence