Cet ouvrage a reçu le prix Charles Delaunay, Académie du Jazz 1993

Language activities are central to Black popular culture. It is through jokes, songs, rhymes, toasts and rapping that the individual can be recognized and given a status.
Talkin¹ That Talk, an encyclopaedic and anthological dictionary, aims not so much at encompassing the whole of this particularism as focusing on its lexical level. This dictionary covers more than 5000 terms or phrases. Some are slang of course, but many are also specifically used by musicians to convey various musical practices and techniques, as well as conditions and places from the music scene. It also includes recurring metaphors, nicknames, place names, historical facts, institutions, brands, numbers and characters
Relegated to the margins as Blacks, musicians, blues singers, jazzmen and rappers have their own way of talking. This is exactly the language that Talkin That Talk wants to track down. Its research field is accurately circumscribed. It aims at recording their vocabulary, such as it exists in attested oral production. This new edition of Talkin That Talk has been considerably expanded (the first version was published by Hatier in 1992) and develops its investigation of blues and jazz vocabulary, including the most recent musical meanings of African-American vocabulary, i.e. hip hop.