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American poetry in performance : from Walt Whitman to hip hop /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Tyler
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Performance poetry > United States > History and criticism.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
American poetry > History and criticism.
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
Poetry slams > United States > History.
Table of 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.