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Authenticating voices: performance, black identity, and slam poetry

Document: Anglais. Online
Auteur(s)
Somers-Willett, Susan B. A.
Titre
Authenticating voices: performance, black identity, and slam poetry / by Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett
Publication
Austin: University of Texas, 2003
Thèmes
Poetry slam
Content
Testu osoa
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1 fitxategi (PDF, 3 MB) (199 or. : kol. ir.)
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Notes
Texaseko Unibertsitateko disertazioa
Azalean: Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Bibliografia: 186-198 or.
LIST OF FIGURES AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS...............................x
INTRODUCTION:
IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT AUDIENCE.....................................................1
CHAPTER 1:
POETRY AND THE PEOPLE: RACE, NATION, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POPULAR VERSE....................................................................................21
Performance, Poetry, and Blackface Minstrelsy......................................31
The Poet-Performer Movement and Vachel Lindsay’s “Higher Vaudeville”.............................................42
Bringing “The Cultural Dowry”: Beat Poetry’s Performance of Black Popular Culture.....................................................................................58
“Working Juju with the Word”: Performance and the Black Arts Movement.............................................................................................70
Slam Poetry and the “Democratization of Verse”...................................83
CHAPTER 2:
AUTHENTICATING VOICES: SLAM POETRY, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCES OF BLACK IDENTITY....................................................94
CHAPTER 3:
“REPRESENTING” SLAM POETRY: THE RACIAL POLITICS OF GOING MAINSTREAM............................................................................................123
Authenticity and Ghettocentricity in Slam............................................136
“Dropping Truth”: Def Poetry’s Marketing of Spoken Word to the Mainstream..........................................................................................150
The Politics of Selling Out: Some Pros and Cons.................................167
EPILOGUE
“DESIGNS FOR LIVING”: NOTES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF SLAM POETRY......................................................................................................173
APPENDIX OF FIGURES............................................................................179
BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................186
VITA............................................................................................................199