The cultural politics of slam poetry race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America /
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| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
c2009.
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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.