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Performance poetry is a broad term, encompassing a variety of styles and genres. In brief, it is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience.
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Performance poetry, similar to slam in that it occurs before...
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Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based...
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Performance poetry has been described at various times as, the new rock'n'roll; insurgent art; the final refuge of the failed comedian; the child of hip-hop; the last home of free speech. It is...
Apr 30, 2020 · Contemporary performance poetry reminds us that African American literature has its roots in the oral tradition and that much of it is intended to be vocalized or performed, occasionally with music. Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, and Sarah Jones are three prominent poets immersed in this integrative medium.
May 7, 2020 · But from the fifteenth century onward, the public performance of poetry waned, under the influence of three things: increasing literacy, enabling more and more people to read rather than listen to poetry; the growth of the theatre, which provided a different kind of public performance for verse; and the invention of the printing press, which ...
Performance poetry. In 1982 the terms "poetry" and "performance" were first used together. Performance poetry appeared to distinguish text-based vocal performances from performance art, especially the work of escenic [clarification needed] and musical performance artists, such as Laurie Anderson, who worked with music at that time. Performance ...
