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 31
... church has maintained the African concept of the unity of the sacred and the secular worlds : " The Black Church has been the single most significant force in nurturing the surviving African language and cultural traditions of African ...
... church has maintained the African concept of the unity of the sacred and the secular worlds : " The Black Church has been the single most significant force in nurturing the surviving African language and cultural traditions of African ...
Page 136
... church and she used to write religious poems which she would recite in church . One of them began : My life was in darkness My soul was in shame My body unconscious ... In 1996 , she entered a poetry competition with ' Karma ' and felt ...
... church and she used to write religious poems which she would recite in church . One of them began : My life was in darkness My soul was in shame My body unconscious ... In 1996 , she entered a poetry competition with ' Karma ' and felt ...
Page 199
... Church of England and his mother sang in the church choir . At the age of six and a half , he went to the local school which was a mile and a half away , as he recalls : " After working at home in the mornings , feeding chickens and ...
... Church of England and his mother sang in the church choir . At the age of six and a half , he went to the local school which was a mile and a half away , as he recalls : " After working at home in the mornings , feeding chickens and ...
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