The cultural politics of slam poetry : race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America / Susan B. A. Somers-Willett.
Publication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.Description: xi, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780472070596 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0472070592 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780472050598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0472050591 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 808.5/45 22
- PN4151 .S67 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
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.