The cultural politics of slam poetry : race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America / / Susan B. A. Somers-Willett.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 191 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- On page and stage: slam poetry as a genre
- Poetry and the people: the cultural tensions of American popular verse in performance
- I sing the body authentic: slam poetry and the cultural politics of performing identity
- "Commercial niggas like me": spoken word poetry, hip-hop, and the racial politics of going mainstream.