Browsing by Subject "Poetry slams"
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"The Best Poet Always Loses" : the Influence of African American English Discourse Styles on the Slam Poetry of Non-AAE Speaking Performers
(2010-04)In its short 30-year history, slam poetry, a performative art with roots in hip-hop, has been dominated by African-American (and other minority) slammers. Interestingly, despite the primary audience of slams being middle-class ...