American Poetry in Performance : From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop.
Title:
American Poetry in Performance : From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop.
Author:
Hoffman, Tyler.
ISBN:
9780472029631
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Walt Whitman "Live": Performing the Public Sphere -- Chapter 2 - The Ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or The Cultural Politics of the Spoken Word -- Chapter 3 - " The Black Man Speaks": Langston Hughes, the New Negro, and the Sounds of Citizenship -- Chapter 4 - Beat Acoustics, Presence, and Resistance -- Chapter 5 - "Rappin' and Readin' ": The Frequencies of the Black Arts -- Chapter 6 - Slam Nation: Immediacy, Mediatization, and the Counterpublic Sphere -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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