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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... influenced by the speakers he heard at barbershop forums and debates in local parks . He visited churches and absorbed the oratorical style of a variety of preachers . He would spend hours alone in his room reciting poetry and trying ...
... influenced by the speakers he heard at barbershop forums and debates in local parks . He visited churches and absorbed the oratorical style of a variety of preachers . He would spend hours alone in his room reciting poetry and trying ...
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... influences on southern white cooking , religion , cowboy culture and language . In the same book Joseph E. Holloway ... influenced a generation of West Indian poets who were trying to use their own speech in their poetry . CARIBBEAN ...
... influences on southern white cooking , religion , cowboy culture and language . In the same book Joseph E. Holloway ... influenced a generation of West Indian poets who were trying to use their own speech in their poetry . CARIBBEAN ...
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... influences in its grammar and intonation . In Trinidad , for example , both French and English creole flourished , each influenced by Yoruba and by French and then English , as the island passed from one European power to the other . In ...
... influences in its grammar and intonation . In Trinidad , for example , both French and English creole flourished , each influenced by Yoruba and by French and then English , as the island passed from one European power to the other . In ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
Performance Poetry | 51 |
Benjamin Zephaniah | 71 |
Copyright | |
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