Slam poetry brings performance to art
In the 1940s and 1950s, a stereotype emerged of "beatnik" poets gathered in coffee shops or smoky basements. The men, goateed and clad in shades, berets and black turtleneck sweaters, beat solemnly on bongos while expressing their angst to the thud of their drums. The women writhing to the rhythms in unassuming black leotards rebelled against the middle-class culture of made up beauty and feminine expectations....
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