The fragmentation in “Dope” and similar poems of the era, and - TopicsExpress



          

The fragmentation in “Dope” and similar poems of the era, and in the spoken word and hip hop that would arrive in their wake, reflects a desire to explode a deceptively unitary world view held together by dominant ideology, where the Communists or the Devil are to blame for why things are so hard for so many. In some ways, the globe-trotting, seemingly random interconnections traced by spoken word art like “Dope,” and later by hip hop artists, from Nas to Immortal Technique, are not simply random Brian Michael Murphy reflects on Amiri Barakas poem Dope. Read more here: bit.ly/1dAU6Zi
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:24:09 +0000

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