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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... ORAL TRADITION De way wi use de word might come like a new fashion I will tell yuh its an ancient tradition Dat started ... oral tradishan its Introduction The Oral Tradition African Culture Introduction The Oral Tradition African Culture.
... ORAL TRADITION De way wi use de word might come like a new fashion I will tell yuh its an ancient tradition Dat started ... oral tradishan its Introduction The Oral Tradition African Culture Introduction The Oral Tradition African Culture.
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... traditions by using the language of the people and writing in free verse . There is a popular oral tradition of poetry in Pakistan , as Rukhsana Ahmad points out in We Sinful Women : " Poetry in Urdu is not the exclusive property of the ...
... traditions by using the language of the people and writing in free verse . There is a popular oral tradition of poetry in Pakistan , as Rukhsana Ahmad points out in We Sinful Women : " Poetry in Urdu is not the exclusive property of the ...
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... tradition continued hand - in - hand with a growing literary tradition . At the end of the nineteenth century , several African American poets , such as James Campbell and the popular orator Daniel Webster ... Oral Poetry Oral Poetry 9 13 21.
... tradition continued hand - in - hand with a growing literary tradition . At the end of the nineteenth century , several African American poets , such as James Campbell and the popular orator Daniel Webster ... Oral Poetry Oral Poetry 9 13 21.
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