BBC Documentaries

Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: The Story of Performance Poetry

Directed by Kemi Majekodunmi
TV-PG
2015 • E236    Oct 10, 2015    60m
Is poetry the new rock 'n' roll - or is rock 'n' roll the new poetry? This documentary explores how the edges between performance poetry and popular music have become blurred - a radical cross-pollination that began 50 years ago when Allen Ginsberg stormed the stage of the Royal Albert Hall. In the year when the Beats met the Beatles, the event turned a young generation on to verse - a revolution that shows no sign of slowing down in today's urban music and slam poetry scenes.

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Cast of Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: The Story of Performance Poetry

  • John Cooper ClarkeGuest Star
  • Kemi MajekodunmiDirector

 

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