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. |
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Page 54
... Louise Bennett Like Una Marson , Louise Bennett also worked for the West Indies section of the BBC . It is remarkable that these two Jamaican voices were heard broadcasting from the home of standard English , decades before the BBC ...
... Louise Bennett Like Una Marson , Louise Bennett also worked for the West Indies section of the BBC . It is remarkable that these two Jamaican voices were heard broadcasting from the home of standard English , decades before the BBC ...
Page 55
... Louise Bennett was born in 1919 in Kingston and began writing and performing poems as a teenager . Far from just standing up and saying things , her poetry is the result of detailed research and observation . She devoted her life to the ...
... Louise Bennett was born in 1919 in Kingston and began writing and performing poems as a teenager . Far from just standing up and saying things , her poetry is the result of detailed research and observation . She devoted her life to the ...
Page 85
... Louise Bennett poem . All Jamaican children would learn Louise Bennett poems . It was the one kind of poetry they would just learn without being told , because it was in their own language . That was the first performance I remember and ...
... Louise Bennett poem . All Jamaican children would learn Louise Bennett poems . It was the one kind of poetry they would just learn without being told , because it was in their own language . That was the first performance I remember and ...
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