Moving Voices: Black Performance PoetryHansib, 2002 - 231 pages A comprehensive collection of poems by twelve,leading Caribbean and UK-born performance poetsthis book not only features biographies of each,poet and a detailed introduction discussing Black,performance poetry and its roots in the oral,traditions of African and Caribbean culture, but,also an accompanying CD with live performances,of selected poems. Check out the website,www.movingvoices.co.uk. |
From inside the book
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... England , we need to look back to African culture . We have to see how that culture was carried to the New World by millions of slaves who survived the journey across the Atlantic , and how it adapted and grew despite attempts by the ...
... England , we need to look back to African culture . We have to see how that culture was carried to the New World by millions of slaves who survived the journey across the Atlantic , and how it adapted and grew despite attempts by the ...
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... England in 1982 , Black performance poetry was already established in the country . In particular , Linton Kwesi Johnson was writing and performing in the 1970s what became known as ' dub ' or ... England Black Performance Poetry in England.
... England in 1982 , Black performance poetry was already established in the country . In particular , Linton Kwesi Johnson was writing and performing in the 1970s what became known as ' dub ' or ... England Black Performance Poetry in England.
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... England from Jamaica at the age of eleven and when he was about seventeen he joined the Black Panthers , the militant Black Power group which originated in the United States . After reading The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
... England from Jamaica at the age of eleven and when he was about seventeen he joined the Black Panthers , the militant Black Power group which originated in the United States . After reading The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
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