"It may be verifyit that thy wit is thin" : Interpreting older Scots flyting through hip hop aesthetics

dc.contributor.author	Flynn, Caitlin	eng
dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, Christy	eng
dc.date.issued	2014-03	eng
dc.description	The extinct tradition of Scottish flyting bears a striking resemblance to American Hip Hop battle rap, a modern day manifestation of poetic invective that developed in the late 1970s among African-American youths in New York City.2 Adam Bradley (2009) describes this poetic phenomenon as "a verbal cutting contest that prizes wit and wordplay above all else" (177). By comparing Older Scots flyting with Hip Hop battle rap we hope to recover something of the tone and purpose of the medieval tradition, namely, that the poets who engaged in these public invectives were actually amicable rivals competing for increased court status and wealth.3	eng
dc.description	Note	eng
dc.format.extent	18 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 29/1 (2014): 69-86.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65336
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	"It may be verifyit that thy wit is thin" : Interpreting older Scots flyting through hip hop aesthetics	eng
dc.type	Article	eng