Long before the uncool could quietly search for the meaning of baffling slang on Urban Dictionary, they could pay 25 cents for a booklet that promised to teach the “hep” dialect of youth. Hepcats Jive ...

Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of the original hep cat Cab Calloway, who wrote a Hepster's Dictionary, translating the jive language of the New York jazz scene. In 1938, the singer and band leader ...