American poetry in performance [[electronic resource] ] : from Walt Whitman to hip hop / / Tyler Hoffman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452958503321
• Autore: Hoffman Tyler
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-472-02963-0
• Edizione: [1st pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 811
• Soggetti: Performance poetry - United States - History and criticism; Oral interpretation of poetry; American poetry - History and criticism; American poetry - African American authors - History and criticism; Poetry slams - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 - Walt Whitman "Live": Performing the Public Sphere""; ""Chapter 2 - The Ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or The Cultural Politics of the Spoken Word""; ""Chapter 3 - " The Black Man Speaks": Langston Hughes, the New Negro, and the Sounds of Citizenship""; ""Chapter 4 - Beat Acoustics, Presence, and Resistance""; ""Chapter 5 - "Rappin' and Readin' ": The Frequencies of the Black Arts""; ""Chapter 6 - Slam Nation: Immediacy, Mediatization, and the Counterpublic Sphere""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Index""