Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Walt Whitman "live": performing the public sphere
  • The ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or the cultural politics of the spoken word
  • "The Black man speaks": Langston Hughes, the new Negro, and the sounds of citizenship
  • Beat acoustics, presence, and resistance
  • "Rappin' and readin'": the frequencies of the Black arts
  • Slam nation: immediacy, mediatization, and the counterpublic sphere.