Spoken word is a performance-based poetry that is focused on the aesthetics of word-play and storytelling and has its roots as far back as the ancient Greeks. Many spoken word poets call it a fusion between writing and acting and it can often be accompanied by other art forms like music, theatre, and dance.
Spoken word focuses on the performance of the words themselves, the dynamics, tone, gestures, facial expressions, and more. Poetic components such as rhyme, repetition, slang, improvisation, and many more elements of poetry can be woven to create an atmosphere the audience can experience.
Modern North-American spoken word poetry originated from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and blues music as well as the beatniks. The term "spoken word" was first adopted to explain the new art coming out of the post-modern art movement and made popular in the underground black community in the 1960s with political music group, The Last Poets.
Spoken Word's fuel is truth and it is one way that many people with strong opinions express them in a creative way. It is an outlet for people to release their views outside the academic and institutional domains of the academic or media. The spoken word and its most popular offshoot, slam poetry, evolved into the present-day soap-box for people, especially younger ones, to express their views, emotions, life experiences or information to audiences. The views of spoken-word artists encompass frank commentary on religion, politics, sex and gender, often taboo subjects in society.
Be sure to check out our very first Poetry Slam at Candy Funhouse:
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