Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care

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Doing our own thing : the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care

John McWhorter

Gotham Books, 2004

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"First Gotham Books trade paperback printing, October 2004" -- t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index

Contents of Works

  • People just talk : speech versus writing
  • Mere rhetoric : the decline of oratory
  • "Got marjoram?" or why I don't have any poetry
  • Rather too colloquial for elegance: written English takes it light
  • What happened to us? or play that funky music, white folks
  • La la la through a new lens : music talks to America

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