Publications

Publication details [#56354]

Rizza, Chris. 2012. The carnival of verbal dueling. Text & Talk 32 (3) : 371–390.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

parody | ritual | song | subculture | verbal dueling

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This study claims that the subversive verbal dueling within Hip Hop Culture closely resembles carnivalesque ritual festivities, textual parodies, and Billingsgate language.