[Harp-L] "signifyin"

[Reach Mann <imreach@xxxxxxxxx>]

. . . from A Myth Of Origins, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"Black vernacular practice of signifacation,
particularly oral practices involving double voiced
trickery through indirection that can involve
innuendo, needling, and ridiculing.
Harp content- "Hey man, you call that a harp, I had
one I found on the freeway got run over by a truck
lookin better then that junker. And you think you're a
bad boy harp player, my granny on a venalator could
out draw you on her death bed. Hey, I was tootin a few
tunes with your Momma the other day while you were at
that harp lesson and she.....
Reach 



       
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