Mark Eleveld

The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From its earliest days to today, poetry has always been a spoken art. On the page and out loud, poetry is the home for the brilliant, the rebellious, the artists and performers who are changing the world. Today's spoken word revolution is the literary equivalent to grabbing a culture by the collar and shaking it...hard.

In the tradition of The Spoken Word Revolution, Redux brings more of the gripping, moving, innovative, often hilarious poetry in the oral tradition. This redefining collection gathers multiple forms of "spoken word" under the same motley tent-slam, hip-hop, musical interpretations, and youth movements among them. The resulting brew is both satisfying and world-expanding. One audio CD features some of the best poems and poets, immediately live in their own electrifying words and voices.

The Spoken Word Revolution Redux includes:

• Singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley
• Slam Poetry founder Marc Smith
• Ethan Hawke reading Beat Poet Gregory Corso
• Jazz pianist Patricia Barber adapting ee cummings
• Former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Bill Collins and Mark Strand
• Four-time national poetry slam champion Patricia Smith
• Jeff Tweedy of Wilco
• Hip-Hop founder Gil Scott-Heron
• Indy National Poetry Slam Champions, including Mayda da Ville
• Viggo Mortensen and Hank Mortensen
• Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sourcebooks Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402248405
• Artikelnr.: 44613050

Autorenporträt

Mark Eleveld is copublisher at EM Press and a board member of the Midland Authors Society in Chicago. He is a freelance writer and book reviewer for the Kankakee Daily Journal in Illinois. Mark Eleveld did press relations for poet Marc Smith from 1993 to 1996. He teaches English at Joliet West High School and is a philosophy instructor at the University of St. Francis in Illinois.

Few people can say that they single-handedly created a whole new art form. Marc Smith is one of those people. Since Marc began the Poetry Slam in 1987, competitive performance poetry has spread throughout the world. Through his creation of the Uptown Poetry Slam and many poetry organizations and ensembles such as the Pong Unit One, the Bob Shakespeare Band, Neutral Turf's Chicago Poetry Festival and the Poetic Theatre Project, Marc has influenced and inspired poets to shake off the notion that poetry belongs only to the high-minded. Author of Crowdpleasers, Marc has performed poetry to more than one hundred thousand people during his sixteen-year-strong weekly show at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago. He lives in Chicago.