The Intertextuality of Black American Spoken Word and African Griot Tradition

Tammie Jenkins

doi:10.5771/9781666933482

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3347-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3348-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 166
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Intertextually Performing in Public Spaces No access
2. Collecting Textual Data, Configuring Meaning No access
3. Moving from Known to Unknown Spaces No access
4. Words beyond the Standard Page No access
5. Experimental Melodic Reconnaissance No access
6. Recreating Sankofa in the Present No access
7. Communal Thoughts in Didactic Spaces No access
8. Traveling a Path Walked by Others No access
9. Book Structure and Organization No access
10. Notes No access
1. African Oral Traditions No access
2. Harlem Renaissance No access
3. Jazz Poetry No access
4. The Blues No access
5. The Beat Generation No access
6. The Black Arts Movement No access
7. Hip Hop/Rap Music No access
8. Sound Poetry No access
9. Notes No access
1. 1. Saul Williams No access
  2. Porsha Olayiwola No access
  3. Rudy Francisco No access
  4. Dr. Javon Johnson No access
  5. Dr. Tracie Morris No access
2. Bonds Etched in Africana Struggles No access
3. Notes No access
1. Warring Consciously or Reopening Past Traumas No access
2. Home-Places Past Then Present No access
3. Finding New Ways to Engage in the Struggle No access
4. Notes No access
1. Entering Rucker’s Elizabeth No access
2. Supa Sista and Unrealized Sheroes No access
3. Women Singing with Men Harmonizing No access
4. Finding Her Seat, by Taking a Stand No access
5. Notes No access
1. Changing Times Expands Kinship Bonds No access
2. Paged, Slammed, Performed, or Spoken Re-Routedness No access
3. Boundaries, Roots, and Domestic Affiliations No access
4. Binding Chain without Locks No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Ending with the Beginning in Mind and Other Addendums No access
7. Suggestions for Further Research No access
8. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 151 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 164
About the Author No access Pages 165 - 166