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Betwixt, between, or beyond?
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ISBN: 3825373630 9783825373634 Year: 2013 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter

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Hauptbeschreibung ''Betwixt, between, or beyond?'' is the first study of contemporary black performance poetry from the viewpoint of transnational American Studies. It investigates a vast array of performances ranging from online recordings to political rallies to the poetry slam and Broadway stage. Black poets discussed come from diverse personal and cultural backgrounds and include, e.g., Patricia Smith, Staceyann Chin, Taalam Acey, Bryonn Bain, and Tshaka Campbell. Developing an approach rooted in anthropological, ethnographic, and theatrical perceptions of performance, the study explores p


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Killing Poetry
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ISBN: 081358003X 0813580048 9780813580043 9780813580036 9780813591124 0813591120 9780813580029 0813580021 9780813580012 0813580013 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of poetry. However, there is little critical dialogue that fully engages with the cultural complexities present in slam and spoken word poetry communities, as well as their ramifications. In Killing Poetry, renowned slam poet, Javon Johnson unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces. He argues that the truly radical potential in slam and spoken word communities lies not just in proving literary worth, speaking back to power, or even in altering power structures, but instead in imagining and working towards altogether different social relationships. His illuminating ethnography provides a critical history of the slam, contextualizes contemporary black poets in larger black literary traditions, and does away with the notion that poetry slams are inherently radically democratic and utopic. Killing Poetry-at times autobiographical, poetic, and journalistic-analyzes the masculine posturing in the Southern California community in particular, the sexual assault in the national community, and the ways in which related social media inadvertently replicate many of the same white supremacist, patriarchal, and mainstream logics so many spoken word poets seem to be working against. Throughout, Johnson examines the promises and problems within slam and spoken word, while illustrating how community is made and remade in hopes of eventually creating the radical spaces so many of these poets strive to achieve.


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Listen to the Poet : Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry
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ISBN: 1613766440 9781613766446 9781613766453 1613766459 9781625343970 1625343973 9781625343963 1625343965 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amherst : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,


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American poetry in performance
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ISBN: 0472029630 0472035525 1299763847 9780472029631 9781299763845 9780472035526 9780472035526 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history.


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The cultural politics of slam poetry
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ISBN: 0472027085 1282703552 9786612703553 9780472027088 9780472050598 0472050591 9780472070596 0472070592 9781282703551 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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