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American poetry in performance : from Walt Whitman to hip hop / Tyler Hoffman.
LIBRA PN4151 .H64 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Tyler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance poetry--United States--History and criticism.
- Performance poetry.
- Oral interpretation of poetry.
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Poetry slams--United States--History.
- Poetry slams.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472117819
- 0472117815
- OCLC:
- 687681373
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