Hoffman, Tyler.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — Walt Whitman live : performing the public sphere — The ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or the cultural politics of the spoken word — The Black man speaks : Langston Hughes, the new Negro, and the sounds of citizenship — Beat acoustics, presence, and resistance — Rappin’ and readin’ : the frequencies of the Black arts — Slam nation: immediacy, mediatization, and the counterpublic sphere.

Subjects:

• 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.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.