Title: American poetry in performance : from Walt Whitman to hip hop /
Authors: Hoffman, Tyler.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 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.
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.