• Signifyin' (sometimes written "signifyin(g)") is a practice in African-American culture involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap...
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    African-American cultural practice of "signifying" and uses the concept of signifyin(g) to analyze the interplay between texts of prominent African-American...
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  • tries to participate in the signifyin’. In addition, Florini adds that "Twitter mimics another key aspect of how signifyin’ games are traditionally played—speed"...
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  • Signifyin' is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Argo label in 1963 and performed by Donaldson with Roy Montrell, Tommy Turrentine...
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  • physically assaults the lion. The lion later realizes that the monkey has been signifyin' and has duped the lion, and as a result the lion angrily returns to castrate...
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    Queen of Comedy" or "The Black Queen of Comedy", Page melded blue humor, signifyin' and observational comedy with jokes about sexuality, race relations,...
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  • flagging outlets. It emerged from traditions like call and response, signifyin', the dozens, capping, and jazz poetry. The transition from oral tradition...
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  • signifying may refer to: Signified and signifier, concepts in linguistics Signifyin', form of wordplay in African-American culture DJ Signify, American hip...
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  • Christiane Badgley served as co-director and editor. In 1991, Riggs founded Signifyin' Works, a non-profit production company that produces films about African-American...
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    work extended application of the concept of "signifyin'" to analysis of African-American works. "Signifyin(g)" refers to the significance of words that...
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  • 1177/007542427200600102, S2CID 145716303 Florini, Sarah (2014), "Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin': Communication and Cultural Performance on "Black Twitter"", Television...
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    Café as further inspiration for stop-time choruses in his repertoire. In Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking, Gena Dagel Caponi writes: In this music...
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  • insulting tradition within African American culture is referred to as "signifyin'", though the word's other meanings are perhaps reflected in Costello...
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    87–104. Gruesser, John C., "An Un-Easy Relationship: Walter Mosley's Signifyin(g) Detective and the Black Community," in Confluences: Postcolonialism...
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    Compilations Ha' Mercy (Cadet 2CA 60007, 1971) [2LP] The Best of Lou Donaldson: Signifyin' (Affinity/Charly ARC-509, 1991) The Best of Lou Donaldson, Volume 1:...
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  • York: Russell Sage College Press. Friedman, Ted. "Making it Funky: The Signifyin(g) Politics of George Clinton's Parliafunkadelicment Thang." 1993. Vincent...
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  • Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41860-7. Caponi, Gena Dagel (1999). Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive...
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    to You" 45 — — 16 — "Red Rover" "Come to Me" 47 — — 46 — "Talkin' and Signifyin'" (from Travelin') Tommy James "—" denotes releases that did not chart...
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    lyricist) "The Lone Ranger" (Billboard, #69 – peaked on June 15, 1974) "Signifyin’ Monkey" (recorded on Sin & Soul) "Forty Acres and a Mule" "Brother Where...
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    com, Lew's Still Loose. Retrieved 15 April 2007. Caponi, Gena (1999). Signifyin(G), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking. Amherst: University of Massachusetts...
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  • 1177/007542427200600102, S2CID 145716303 Florini, Sarah (2014), "Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin': Communication and Cultural Performance on "Black Twitter"", Television...
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  • Anderson Edited by Deborah Hoffmann Music by Mary Watkins Production company Signifyin' Works Distributed by California Newsreel Release date 1992 (1992) Running...
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    1997) Mr. Blake's Blues (Al Blake, 1997) My Blues (Kim Wilson, 1997) Signifyin' (Fred Kaplan, 1997) Back to Back (Lynwood Slim, 1998) Lookin for Trouble...
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    com, Lew's Still Loose. Retrieved 15 April 2007. Caponi, Gena (1999). Signifyin(G), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking. Amherst: University of Massachusetts...
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  • The concept of signifyin(g) as repetition with a difference, which means that the identity of any particular instance of signifyin(g) and the person...
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  • idea formulated by Signifyin' Works President Vivian Kleiman, eventually garnered support from the Ford Foundation, and Signifyin' Works seeded international...
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    Retrieved February 10, 2018. Maxile, Horace J. (2008). "Signs, Symphonies, Signifyin(G): African-American Cultural Topics as Analytical Approach to the Music...
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    rather to escape the face, to dismantle the face and facializations". Signifyin' Kalelioğlu, Murat (2018). A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Semantic...
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  • Ritchie Cordell, Tommy James, Bob King, Mike Vale 2:03 5. "Talkin' & Signifyin'"   2:43 6. "Travelin'" Eddie Gray, Tommy James, Peter Lucia, Ronnie Rosman...
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  • The Natural Soul (1962) A Man With a Horn (1963) Good Gracious! (1963) Signifyin' (1963) Possum Head (1964) With others Am I Blue (Grant Green, 1963) Blues...
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