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BBC Radio 4 – Dr Hepcat and the Hepster’s Dictionary






BBC Radio 4 – Dr Hepcat and the Hepster’s Dictionary


 
In 1938, the singer and band leader Cab Calloway became the first known African American to publish a book and call it a dictionary. His book of jive talk, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary, translated some of the lively and inventive slang being used among musicians and entertainers in New York's Harlem, for a new audience of jazz fans who weren't yet 'hep to the jive’.

 




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