Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813580013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Killing Poetry—at times autobiographical, poetic, and journalistic—analyzes the masculine posturing in the Southern California community in particular, the sexual assault in the national community, and the ways in which related social media inadvertently replicate many of the same white supremacist, patriarchal, and mainstream logics so many spoken word poets seem to be working against. In Killing Poetry, renowned slam poet, Javon Johnson unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces. Throughout, Johnson examines the promises and problems within slam and spoken word, while illustrating how community is made and remade in hopes of eventually creating the radical spaces so many of these poets strive to achieve. . He ar
"Javon Johnson provides an eloquent argument on a very important subject. Killing Poetry will make a significant contribution to black performance history."