TY  - BOOK
AU  - McWhorter,John H
TI  - Doing our own thing: the degradation of language and music and why we should, like, care 
AV  - PE2808.M478.D656 2003 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Gotham Books
KW  - English language
KW  - Variation
KW  - United States
KW  - Popular music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Written English
KW  - Spoken English
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Language and culture
N1  - 1 (pages 255-266) and index; 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; 2
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003011487.html
ER  -