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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tyler Hoffman |
| ISBN: | 9780472117819 0472117815 |
| OCLC Number: | 687681373 |
| Description: | 271 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Walt Whitman "live": performing the public sphere -- The ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or the cultural politics of the spoken word -- "The Black man speaks": Langston Hughes, the new Negro, and the sounds of citizenship -- Beat acoustics, presence, and resistance -- "Rappin' and readin'": the frequencies of the Black arts -- Slam nation: immediacy, mediatization, and the counterpublic sphere. |
| Responsibility: | Tyler Hoffman. |
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Abstract:
Traces the history of performance poetry in America over the last 150 years.
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