Spoken word poetry has a rich genealogy that Imani Perry (2004) calls the “poetics of Hip-Hop.” My aim in this chapter is to, first, offer a genealogy of the spoken word culture; second, show how, within a twentieth-century context, spoken word poets are...
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Ibrahim, A. (2020). Tupac Shakur: Spoken Word Poets as Cultural Theorists. In Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods (pp. 255–272). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35392-6_15
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