Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1
  • Walt Whitman "Live": Performing the Public Sphere""; ""Chapter 2
  • The Ordeal of Vachel Lindsay, or The Cultural Politics of the Spoken Word""; ""Chapter 3
  • " The Black Man Speaks": Langston Hughes, the New Negro, and the Sounds of Citizenship""; ""Chapter 4
  • Beat Acoustics, Presence, and Resistance""; ""Chapter 5
  • "Rappin' and Readin' ": The Frequencies of the Black Arts""; ""Chapter 6
  • Slam Nation: Immediacy, Mediatization, and the Counterpublic Sphere""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Index""