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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Page 21
... keep together , who could undergo such dismemberment , resuscitate itself , and endure until it could take the initiative in achieving its own freedom is obviously more than the sum of its brutalization . Seen in this perspective ...
... keep together , who could undergo such dismemberment , resuscitate itself , and endure until it could take the initiative in achieving its own freedom is obviously more than the sum of its brutalization . Seen in this perspective ...
Page 74
... keep it alive , It could be yu mate and not on yu plate Say , Yo ! Turkey I'm on your side . Of his performances ... Keeps on Kicking Me to Death ' , for example , he rolls around the floor , feet kicking , face distorted , dreadlocks ...
... keep it alive , It could be yu mate and not on yu plate Say , Yo ! Turkey I'm on your side . Of his performances ... Keeps on Kicking Me to Death ' , for example , he rolls around the floor , feet kicking , face distorted , dreadlocks ...
Page 183
... keeping us high We're in a metropolis - A melting pot of subliminal jazz Give me the alternative blues Give me the soca jam For Brixton rocks and is in the groove With a heavy baseline keeping it real Brixton sets the catwalks ablaze ...
... keeping us high We're in a metropolis - A melting pot of subliminal jazz Give me the alternative blues Give me the soca jam For Brixton rocks and is in the groove With a heavy baseline keeping it real Brixton sets the catwalks ablaze ...
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