Doing our own thing, the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care, John McWhorter
Type
Label
Doing our own thing, the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care, John McWhorter
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Doing our own thing
Oclc number
53241560
Responsibility statement
John McWhorter
Sub title
the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care
Table Of Contents
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