The Room Is on Fire - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438470223 ISBN 13 : 9781438470221

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.

The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told through the voices of those involved. Interviewees include the people who organized the first youth poetry slam festivals, the founders of central youth spoken word organizations, and a selection of young people who have participated in their local programs and in regional and national events over the last two decades. Narratives about individual and communal efforts and experiences are supported by analyses of full-text poems by youth poets and by reference to contemporary scholarship in performance studies, critical youth studies, and new literacy studies. Blending history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events, the book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators, and K-12 teachers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Weinstein is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University and the author of Feel These Words: Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438470223
• ISBN 13: 9781438470221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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