American poetry in performance
Subtitle: from Whitman to hip hop
By: Tyler Hoffman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780472117819
Subjects: Performance poetry; African American authors; American poetry; Poetry slams; Oral interpretation of poetry; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Walt Whitman "live": performing the public sphere; title: The ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or the cultural politics of the spoken word; title: "The Black man speaks": Langston Hughes, the new Negro, and the sounds of citizenship; title: Beat acoustics, presence, and resistance; title: "Rappin' and readin'": the frequencies of the Black arts; title: Slam nation: immediacy, mediatization, and the counterpublic sphere.