American poetry in performance : from Walt Whitman to hip hop / Tyler Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Tyler.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop is the first book to trace a comprehensive history of performance poetry in America, covering 150 years of literary history from Walt Whitman through the rap-meets-poetry scene. It reveals how the performance of poetry is bound up with the performance of identity and nationality in the modern period and carries its own shifting cultural politics. This book stands at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences; it is a book of literary and cultural criticism that deals squarely with issues of "performance," a concept that has attained great importance in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology and has generated its own distinct field of performance studies. Relating the performance of poetry to shifting political and cultural ideologies in the United States, Hoffman argues that the vocal aspect of public poetry possesses (or has been imagined to possess) the ability to help construct both national and subaltern communities. American Poetry in Performance explores public poets' confrontations with emergent sound recording and communications technologies as those confrontations shape their mythologies of the spoken word and their corresponding notions about America and Americanness. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Walt Whitman "Live": Performing the Public Sphere 16

Chapter 2 The Ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or The Cultural Politics of the Spoken Word 55

Chapter 3 "The Black Man Speaks": Langston Hughes, the New Negro, and the Sounds of Citizenship 88

Chapter 4 Beat Acoustics, Presence, and Resistance 124

Chapter 5 "Rappin' and Readin'": The Frequencies of the Black Arts 162

Chapter 6 Slam Nation: Immediacy, Mediatization, and the Counterpublic Sphere 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472029631

9780472035526

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.3091522

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.