Spoken word poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on poems that are meant to be performed and that are heavily stressed, metrically regular, and are characterized by improvisation, free association, and word play. Works on poems that are meant to be performed that emphasize sounds instead of semantics for their meaning are entered under Sound poetry.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
The rhetoric of slam poetry and its potential in the college writing classroom, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sca
Identifier: b7667382
Introduction [excerpt]
To ... begin this thesis, I will situate slam poetry in relation to composition and rhetoric scholarship, by investigating and ultimately questioning the tendency to reject the use of literary or fictional texts in first year writing courses. I will address why compositionists tend to prefer using overtly politically or socially conscious nonfiction articles in order to teach academic writing and suggest that slam poetry might provide a highly effective alternative or additonal focus for...
Dates:
2015