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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... oral culture and written culture . Some of the most famous literary works in the world are based on oral tales . About 2,700 years ago , the earliest surviving Greek author , Homer , wrote down the Iliad and Odyssey , epic poems which ...
... oral culture and written culture . Some of the most famous literary works in the world are based on oral tales . About 2,700 years ago , the earliest surviving Greek author , Homer , wrote down the Iliad and Odyssey , epic poems which ...
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... oral challenge is ironic in view of the debt of almost all poetic forms to oral rhythms and vocalizations , and the vital and continuing existence of oral genres worldwide . " Duncan Brown , Voicing the Text , 1998 Give me a word any ...
... oral challenge is ironic in view of the debt of almost all poetic forms to oral rhythms and vocalizations , and the vital and continuing existence of oral genres worldwide . " Duncan Brown , Voicing the Text , 1998 Give me a word any ...
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... oral poem . This performance aspect of oral poetry is sometimes forgotten , even though it lies at the heart of the whole concept of oral literature . " Ruth Finnegan , Oral Poetry , 1992 Intellectuals an sociologists mus come an see ...
... oral poem . This performance aspect of oral poetry is sometimes forgotten , even though it lies at the heart of the whole concept of oral literature . " Ruth Finnegan , Oral Poetry , 1992 Intellectuals an sociologists mus come an see ...
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