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The writing and performance of spoken word poetry can create moments of productive critical engagement. In The Fifth Element, Crystal Leigh Endsley charts her experience of working with a dynamic and diverse group of college students, who are also emerging artists, to explore the connection between spoken word and social responsibility. She considers how themes of activism, identity, and love intersect with the lived experiences of these students and how they use spoken word to negotiate resistance and to navigate through life. Endsley also examines the local and transnational communities where performances took place to shed light on concepts of social responsibility and knowledge production.

Social justice --- Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Poetry --- Performance poetry --- Equality --- Justice --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Study and teaching. --- Social aspects. --- Oral interpretation

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Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history.

Performance poetry --- Oral interpretation of poetry. --- American poetry --- Poetry slams --- Slams, Poetry --- Poetry --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- History. --- Competitions --- Oral interpretation

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"Bodies on the Line offers the first, sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines a vast archive of audio recordings of several key postwar American poets to explore the social and literary context of the sixties poetry reading, which is characterized by two vastly differing styles of performance: the humanist and the skeptical strain"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. --- American poetry --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Poetry --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Oral interpretation

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Given the increasing popularity of literary festivals, open mics, and poetry slams, one could justifiably claim that the English-speaking world is currently experiencing a 'Live Poetry' boom. Yet, despite this raised awareness for the aesthetic and social potential of performed poetry, academia has barely responded, failing in the process to update and adapt its concept of poetry to meet these recent developments.Bridging this critical gap, this volume provides for the first time a full methodological 'toolkit' for the analysis of live poetry by drawing together approaches from diverse disciplines concerned with speech and forms of cultural performance.Most notably, these include literary studies, paralinguistics, musicology, kinesics, theatre and performance studies, and folklore studies. This innovative methodology is demonstrated through sample analyses based on a mixed corpus of audio and video recordings of poetry performances, as well as on personal interviews with practitioners of live poetry. Of value to the scholar and poetry enthusiast alike, this volume presents an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding and analysing poetry's evolution through its current 'spoken word' renaissance.

Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Performance poetry. --- Performance art. --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Poetry --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- Oral interpretation --- English poetry --- Poetry, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Modern poetry --- English literature --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie --- Theory, etc --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Lecture en public. --- Poésie

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In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

American literature --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Poetry --- Public opinion --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Appreciation --- Philosophy --- Oral interpretation --- United States --- American poetry --- Public opinion.