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portada Performance Bond
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
1551521644
ISBN13
9781551521640
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Performance Bond

Wayde Compton (Author) · Arsenal Pulp Press · Paperback

Performance Bond - Wayde Compton

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Synopsis "Performance Bond "

In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture.With poetry inspired by the insistent cadences of hip-hop and jazz, Compton fuses language, history, and contemporary black politics. He deals with black diaspora at the outer rim of geography and culture, concerned with the legacy of the slave trade, the memory and origins of hip-hop, and the ramifications of urban renewal on North America’s inner cities.Performance Bond is supplemented with a CD that is a recording of Compton’s musical performance of one of the book’s sections, “The Reinventing Wheel,” featuring the turntable mixing of his reading of the poem, pre-recorded on vinyl, with musical beats, breaks, and samples.From “To Poitier”:You, Sidney, dark, nappy, and representative,fluent and fine,were all of us at once;his, hers, theirs, and mine.You were cool and stoical enoughnot to throttle Tony Curtisafter being chained to him for ninety minutes.You colonized England in reverse, teachinga classroom full of Cockney racistshow to speak BBC English.You came to dinner and ate your fill: Veni, vidi, vici:you came, they saw, and we got to move to the suburbs.Wayde Compton is a poet, turntablist, and Black historian born and raised in Vancouver. He is the author of the poetry collection 49th Parallel Psalm and the editor of the anthology Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature.

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