Spoken Word in the UK

Herausgeber: English, Lucy; McGowan, Jack

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different styles and characteristics that make it unique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780367352523
• ISBN-10: 0367352524
• Artikelnr.: 69983297

Autorenporträt

Lucy English is a reader in creative writing and head of the Creative Writing Research Centre at Bath Spa University, UK. Jack McGowan is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Worcester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Luke Kennard; Introduction: Setting the Stage: An Introduction
to Spoken Word in the UK - Jack McGowan and Lucy English (Editors);
Section 1: Background to Spoken Word in the UK; Chapter 1: Biting Back
Against the Fascist Octopus: The Story of Apples and Snakes - Russell
Thompson; Chapter 2: Suffering Fools: The survival and adaptation of
British absurd, comic, and satirical traditions in the era of poetry slams
- Steve Larkin; Chapter 3: Black Country, Ay We - Voices from
Post-Industrial Britain - Emma Purshouse and R. M. Francis; Chapter 4: The
New October Poets - Adrian Johnson; Chapter 5: Glasgow, Scotland and Spoken
Word from 1986 to 2018 - Jim Ferguson; Chapter 6: A critical account of the
development of Spoken Word events and settings in Wales in collaboration
with partners in Sweden and Ireland - Mel Perry and Dominic Williams;
Chapter 7: The Democracy of Poetry: The Bristol Spoken Word Scene - Lucy
English; Section 2: Audience and Performer; Chapter 8: The Spoken Word
Experience: affect transmission in contemporary performance poetry - Jack
McGowan; Chapter 9: The Limitations of the Page/Stage Dichotomy: Examining
the page/stage divide - Niall O'Sullivan; Chapter 10: Exploring the
relationship between audience and performer, the implications of the
affective turn in reader-response and the emancipation of the passive
spectator - Scott Martingell; Chapter 11: 'Speak Your Truth': Authenticity
in UK Spoken Word Poetry - Katie Ailes; Chapter 12: Audience as Co-Author:
Poet-Audience Relationship in Performance Poetry - Lauren McNamara;
Chapter 13: Listen to me! The moral value of the poetry performance space -
Karen Simecek; Chapter 14: Audience and performer responses to performing
1-2-1 and intimate poetry - Debra Watson; Section 3: Cultural Exchange;
Chapter 15: Poetic Orality in Working-Class Culture 1840-70 - Simon Rennie;
Chapter 16: She Grrrowls: Feminism in Contemporary Spoken Word - Carmina
Masoliver; Chapter 17: Playing for Affect in Counterpublics: An
Interdisciplinary Investigation into the Transformative Potential of Spoken
Word Hybridity - Katy Wareham Morris; Chapter 18: The Metic Experience of
the Black British Writer: Challenging the Margins - Nick Makoha; Chapter
19: Overthrowing Societal Norms Through the Spoken Word: Benjamin
Zephaniah's Dub Poetry in City Psalms - Ian Hickey; Chapter 20: The Impact
of Malika's Poetry Kitchen on the UK Poetry Scene - Sundra Lawrence;
Section 4: Styles and Techniques; Chapter 21: Fish Out of Water or Creative
Chameleon?: Spoken Word as a form of Social Mobility - Kate Fox; Chapter
22: Style and Technique in Spoken Word - David Hubble; Chapter 23: British
Spoken Word Voice - Hannah Silva; Chapter 24: I thought I was just coming
to watch: Audience Participation in Spoken Word Performance - Rose Condo;
Section 5: Pedagogy of Spoken Word; Chapter 25: How can developing an
Overarching Pedagogical Metaphor defining my own poetics, aid my teaching
of creative writing and 'Spoken Word Education'? - Amy Neilson; Chapter 26:
Spoken Word Education: The Role of a Spoken Word Educator: Pitfalls and
Possibilities - Sara Hirsch; Chapter 27: Searching for Consistency:
Applying Reflective Equilibrium to Performance Poetry Criticism - Ross
McFarlane and Bibi June Schwithal; Chapter 28: Spoken Word as Therapy and
Power - Jhilmil Breckenridge; Chapter 29: Intersections Between Spoken Word
in the UK and US: A Nexus in Dialogue - Helen Johnson and Jacob Sam La
Rose; Section 6: Publicity and Distribution; Chapter 30: Speaking with
Machines & Machines that Speak: Spoken Word & Digital Performance Poetry -
David Devanny; Chapter 31: The Capital of Culture and the Culture of
Capital: The Controversy of Commerce in Spoken Word - Peter Bearder;
Chapter 32: Poetry Slam in the UK - Toby Campion; Chapter 33: More Show,
Less Tell?: How do we talk about spoken word now that it is working on a
theatre stage? - Sharon Clark and Ruth Stacey; Chapter 34: Spoken Word in
Print. Instant Coffee: A conversation with Clive Birnie from Burning Eye
Books -Clive Birnie (interviewed by Lucy English)