[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rap Music"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Feb 19 12:30:13 UTC 2024


rap music (OED 1981 Mar.)

1981 _Daily Argus_ (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) 19 Jan. A5/2 (Newspapers.com)

Increasingly popular among teen-agers, rap music is a stylistic cousin to disco.

Fred Shapiro

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