The cultural politics of slam poetry race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America / Susan B. A. Somers-Willett.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: The cultural politics of slam poetry Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. 9780472070596 (cloth : alk. paper)
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