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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"performance poetry"”.
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Uncovering identities through performance poetry
<p>Research in the area of performance poetry is still relatively new to the field of communication. Using Hecht’s Communication Theory of Identity, this study explores performance poetry as a communicative tool for identity management. By observing the performances of five poets from six seasons …
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The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art of Making Do
Open mic poetry events are representative examples of a widespread and socially significant performance phenomenon--the relational and dialogic art and activism of the sustained encounter as a demonstration of the possibility for new social relations. Open mic performances center the pleasure of …
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CONFESSIONS OF A HIP-HOP HIPPIE
… does not give a history of hip-hop or hip-hop poetry but rather how this particular poet fits into the current phase of hip-hop and performance poetry. In it, I discuss and explain the new pro-working class hip-hop performance poetic. This includes extensive discussion of how rap poetry conveys …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… December of 2001, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (Def Poetry Jam) turned HBO viewers into audience members of a televised poetry reading, featuring spoken word and performance poetry. Over six seasons, actors, rappers, comedians, and the host, Mos Def, joined poets in a unique …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
<p>This dissertation unpacks the poetry, performances, and the production of <em>Def Poetry Jam</em> to explore how a performative art embodied and confronted racial discourses, including stereotypes and also, addressed the racism, patriotism, and imperialist discourses that circulated after 9/11. …
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Poetry as a performing art in the English-speaking Caribbean.
… a direct relationship between the emergence of poetry as a performing art in the English speaking Caribbean and phases of nationalist agitation from the uprisings against unemployment, low pay and colonial neglect during 1937-8 to the present. Though the poetry has many variations in scope, …
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Hearing Voices, Telling Tales: An exploration of the move from page to stage in the work of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 1998 - 2018
… of a PhD by Published Works consists of six poetry publications of which I am the sole author: my first pamphlet, Stranded on Ithaca (Bradford: Redbeck, 1998) which was winner of the Redbeck Press 1997 Pamphlet Competition, my first full-length collection, Rockclimbing in Silk (Bridgend: …
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Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft
… a current cohort of female poets employing performance techniques in their poetries, investigating how these poets continue to adapt and adopt the aesthetics of earlier poets. In recent years, the popularity of poetry in online communities has boomed, with an inevitable backlash to this …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… with Canadian Mohawk writer E. Pauline Johnson’s performance poetry and short story “A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” The chapter focuses on the ways in which the two writers mobilized distinct political subjectivities that converged around the social and political critique of the foundations of settler …
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Identity Performance and Space in the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene
… on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods of performance studies, the research design …