Jazz poetry
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| - | :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xAeW98Axk | + | '''Jazz poetry''' is poetry that demonstrates [[jazz]]-like [[rhythm]] or the feel of [[improvisation]]. During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of [[rhythm]] and [[style]]; among these were [[Ezra Pound]], [[T. S. Eliot]], and [[E. E. Cummings]]. The significance of the simultaneous evolution of poetry and jazz during the 1920s was apparent to many poets of the era, resulting in the merging of the two art forms into jazz poetry. Jazz poetry has long been something of an "outsider" art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans, maintained in the 1950s by [[counterculture]] poets like those of the [[Beat generation]], and adapted in modern times into [[hip-hop music]] and live poetry events known as [[poetry slam]]s. |
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| - | [[Wanda Robinson]] is/was an [[American]] [[jazz poet]] who recorded for [[Perception Records]] in the [[1970s]]. | + | |
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| - | *http://www.leroyburgess.com/lbblog/2006/08/wanda_robinson_black_ivory.html | + | |
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Jazz poetry is poetry that demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation. During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings. The significance of the simultaneous evolution of poetry and jazz during the 1920s was apparent to many poets of the era, resulting in the merging of the two art forms into jazz poetry. Jazz poetry has long been something of an "outsider" art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans, maintained in the 1950s by counterculture poets like those of the Beat generation, and adapted in modern times into hip-hop music and live poetry events known as poetry slams.
