Others began in spoken word conferences, or in MFA classrooms.
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Even American politics is still shaped by the spoken word.
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It can be just as powerful as the spoken word.
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But then around the song's midpoint, Depp stepped in for a creepy spoken-word solo (sort of similar to the spoken-word portion of Metallica's "Enter Sandman") before launching into an entirely serviceable guitar solo.
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In this case, he brings on vocalists Ian Isiah and Eva Tolkin, while poet Ashlee Haze opens the performance with a beautifully personal spoken word performance (and, believe me, spoken word isn't normally my thing).
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I should note here that language is not the spoken word.
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Roisin Murphy even shows up to do some spoken word (yes).
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You are to Telesales what Cicero was to the spoken word.
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Spoken word audio will work, but music will not sound great.
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For now though let's celebrate the power of the spoken word.
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"In Philly spoken word poetry was a big thing," Peyton says.
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Spoken word and an "architectural intervention" are also on the menu.
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Yolanda Wisher was appointed curator of spoken word at Philadelphia Contemporary.
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That's the music, of course, and the recorded spoken-word toasts.
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Working Class Woman, out October 5th, complicates Davidson's spoken-word satire.
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Toronto-based elementary school teacher and spoken-word artist Kanwar Singh, a.k.a.
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You've really made that the forefront of your Sunday "Spoken Word" videos.
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The spoken word artist Kate Tempest will also perform at the festival.
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Spoken word has long been in a doldrum but that is changing.
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It's really relatable, especially in the beginning in the spoken word part.
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That's why I started doing spoken word on tour in between songs.
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Some spoken word and comedy performances are also part of the festival.
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"We were both signed up to perform spoken-word poetry," Kay recalled.
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It's interesting with spoken word poetry, because things often do get emotional.
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And naturally, the spoken-word sections function as bridges to the songs.
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The spoken word — Pryor's off-color jokes — needed to be in color.
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The tributes for Brooks & Dunn came in both spoken word and song.
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The local spoken word artist used his spot to raise more difficult issues.
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The warehouse where Mozaffari lived hosts concerts, art shows, and spoken word poetry.
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She's a spoken word artist, but she's also a choreographer and a dancer.
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The spoken word outro is so cliché that it literally made me grimace.
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He is also the recipient of three Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album.
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St-Pierre: It will still have spoken word and the same vocal treatments.
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Most have involved some kind of performance: spoken word, piano performances, or similar.
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St. Dominic, in his time, there was a lot of spoken word heresy.
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The Spoken Word category has a long history of political winners and nominees.
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"the dynamic spoken word histrionics of Lydia Lunch," and a reading by Michael
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There are choppy breakbeats, melodramatic spoken word interludes and hi-NRG violin samples.
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From there, I started singing opera live, doing spoken word, and finally burlesque.
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But then the film (without a spoken word) takes a less picturesque turn.
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The pastors who responded know something about the power of the spoken word.
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Christine Estima is a novelist, freelance writer and spoken word artist in Toronto.
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A colorful spoken word piece has gone viral as "Black Panther" mania grows.
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It's an honest account of his search for self through music and spoken word.
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"PDX" might be the most striking song, all melancholy drift and spoken-word poetry.
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It's not William Shatner's spoken word cover of "Rocket Man," but it's pretty catchy.
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It was a dreamy and powerful mix of visuals, spoken word, confessions and lyrics.
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Currently, there will not be any spoken word content mixed in — it's all music.
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PEEKSKILL Live Art Fest 2016, live music, D.J., spoken word, dance and discussions. Jan.
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One resident performs a spoken word piece that describes her experience on Skid Row.
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Podcasts are in, reflecting the platform's broader push to encompass all things spoken word.
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Onstage at Rumsey Playfield is a mixture of dance, spoken word and musical performances.
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The event, titled "NüVoices of the Diaspora," will feature spoken word, video, and music.
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Her own deliberation takes place in scientific papers, congressional testimony, and spoken word poetry.
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We also had a lecture on womanism and writing spoken word inspired by womanism.
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She also noted that interpretation is for the spoken word and translation for the written.
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Miranda opened the performance with a quick spoken-word intro before Cravalho finished it solo.
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I understand you've already introduced a spoken word element, to go alongside the photo exhibition.
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Understanding the written and spoken word is a big an important challenge for computer scientists.
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It has built something that's like Pandora's Music Genome Project, but for the spoken word.
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Can they claim copyright infringement for a video with just spoken word about a topic?
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In 2011 you toured with the feminist spoken-word and performance art collective Sister Spit.
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PATERSON "Centennial Art in the Park Showcase," live music, spoken word and theater performances. Aug.
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Storytelling can only be done by yesterday's standards of word of written and spoken word.
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It could be unbearable as a spoken word piece, so a play could work better.
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Diplo provides spoken word backing and Koenig sings over a beat that's more than spare.
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Furtado actually sums it up quite nicely in one of the album's spoken word interludes.
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Spoken word mostly, juggle, write articles, write books, curate shows, art shows, anything but music!
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It also features a spoken word section about the tenuous relationship between frustration and desire.
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The audio version of her memoir Becoming earned a nod for best spoken word album.
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Oberfelder's multimedia approach includes dance, film, spoken word and an original score by Missy Mazzoli.
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This year, even former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is nominated for best spoken word album.
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What inspired the spoken-word piece (featured below), and what were you hoping to get across?
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Turning the videos he posts on Instagram of spoken word poetry into a book and album.
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I hold my head high' In a spoken word performance, Jairus Ong'etta touched on his experience.
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The track features a spoken word outro in which his mother, Gloria Carter, discusses her sexuality.
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So, we turned to the expert in romance, the spoken word, and winning over audiences — Hollywood.
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The bulk of Em's freestyle sounded like a glorified and tired coffee shop spoken word performance.
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For the spoken word, snippets of natural language of people with depression have also provided insight.
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Never big on extended spoken-word material or solo-acoustic remakes of exalted songbooks, I'm impressed.
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"I can't remember names," he told me, yet his recall for the spoken word is preternatural.
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The record opens with woozy electronics as a spoken word track sets up the fictional city.
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This project combines math rock, spoken word, jazz, noise, and a bassoon played by David Resig.
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Cyrus Aaron, Spoken Word Kerby came to my play Someday earlier this year and loved it.
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Through music and spoken word, the suite traces humanity's origins back to the Nile River delta.
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This one-hour holiday special has something for everyone: gospel, classical music, dance and spoken word.
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Ms. Brown admits some difficulties, like the danger of falling into clichés of spoken-word performance.
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Obama isn't the only former first lady to win a Grammy for best spoken word album.
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"Tasting notes and talking wine can be boring enough in writing, let alone via spoken word."
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Former Presidents Carter and Obama are both two-time Grammy winners in the Spoken Word category.
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You'll find yourself leaning into the speakers to pick out every softly delivered spoken word message.
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It has this real cinematic quality, she's doing a lot of spoken word and stuff on it.
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Michael Stipe provides a spoken word intro explaining all proceeds go to Manning, released from prison Wednesday.
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They're all singing and rapping but, spoiler alert -- there's also a spoken word part with Dave Chappelle!
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I felt like "Rise" needed a voice on it, and a spoken word part just felt natural.
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The clip above was shared on Facebook and YouTube by teacher and spoken word poet Christian Foley.
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Bridges plays Gil Scott-Heron, an African-American soul and jazz spoken-word poet and political activist.
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Last month, Google added spoken-word commands you can use for editing and formatting your dictated words.
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Livingston, who was receiving his master's degree in education, presented a spoken word poem during his speech.
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Both Hull's book and movie are essentially works of transcription, transferring spoken word to a new medium.
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OK (or okay, ok, or k) might just be the most widely spoken word in the world.
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The couple met at Moca Bar and Lounge at a spoken word performance in Harlem in 245.
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"All genres and performance modes are welcome (choral, spoken word, electronic, hip-hop, etc.)," the site explains.
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The space is also hosting a nightly program of events, including performance art, spoken word, poetry, and comedy.
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But when it came back it was spoken word; he's reciting words that he's written about an artist.
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Instead, it's a triumphant, '90s-house-inflected pop confection, part breathy vocals and part spunky, spoken-word playfulness.
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The highlight of the new material is "10 Commandments", a reverb-heavy, spoken-word track featuring Saffiyah Khan.
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Their voices sound creaky, croaky, rough — with the last syllable of every spoken word dragging on and on.
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His vows are so exceptional because he delivered them as a spoken-word poem that rhymed and everything.
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Spoken word is kind of a bold move, and it was something I didn't feel comfortable doing myself.
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While the young dancers salute the power of poems, the spoken-word artist Aja Monet will also perform.
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She dives between minimalist icons, slowed-down edits of legendary synthesists, recently uncovered spoken word experiments, and more.
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And when the band shifted into a quieter passage, he'd forgo singing for a borderline spoken word approach.
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He worked through the summer, performed autobiographical poetry at a spoken-word event and graduated in June 2016.
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She's essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today's avant-garde.
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The contagion (a sort of rage zombie disease) is spread not by physical contact, but the spoken word.
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Not everyone can speak on a panel or talk to politicians; sometimes organizing is a spoken-word piece.
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Obama's win for best spoken word album beat out nominees John Waters and the Beastie Boys, among others.
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Communication, particularly the spoken word, is not altogether different from the train that almost always arrives on time.
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All I knew at that point is that it was a spoken-word thing that Bob was doing.
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She works in Newark as a senior manager of marketing for Audible, Amazon's audiobook and spoken-word subsidiary.
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He also provided music for spoken-word recordings by the writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Kathy Acker.
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Today, SoundCloud is free to use, and provides listeners with a catalog mostly of music, but also spoken word.
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He had little positive to say, for example, about Abdirizak Warsame, a onetime spoken-word artist nicknamed A-Zak.
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The show is a mixture of spoken word and song running a bit over two hours with no intermission.
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Several were lip syncs of spoken word recordings from poet Blythe Baird, who talks about overcoming an eating disorder.
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Spoken word artist and Sentebale ambassador George the Poet (George Mpanga) also performed to an audience of 3,000 people.
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Ward had always had a passion for poetry and spoken word, but previously only shared it with her family.
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When it comes to spoken word performance, very few artists in the UK have a ferocity quite like Kojey.
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British poet and spoken-word artist Hollie McNish's "Embarrassed," a powerful collaboration with Independent Films, has quickly gone viral.
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" British poet and spoken-word artist Hollie McNish tackled this very contradiction in a poem she wrote called "Embarrassed.
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Together their set was a combination of Powell's fizzy techno and Tillmans's spoken word about democracy and eating ass.
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For its earliest years, it was primarily a music-variety program featuring regional artists and interstitial spoken-word bits.
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Her five-song EP, "Voices," which explores feminist values through spoken word, rap and electronica, was released last year.
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"What we name spoken word or slam or esto y lo otro, we have had names for," she said.
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One leads to Akifumi Kikuchi, 34, who writes advertising copy by day and performs spoken-word poetry by night.
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In 1968 he released a recording of his own, "Skin Deep," a spoken-word cri de coeur about racism.
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For me that's very particularly true because I was a spoken-word artist who had never written a play.
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Like Endtroducing, it featured a dizzying assortment of musical and spoken word samples, and boasted a similar funky grittiness.
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Some public high school students in New York are sharing their perspectives through open letters, spoken word and poetry.
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The power of the spoken word Gouro launched Lenali last year, and claims that it now has 27,000 users.
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Smith got their start in spoken word, and their work has always retained the intimacy and directness of performance.
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" If you struggle with the written (or spoken) word, "take a communications class or read a book on grammar.
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" Carrie Fisher won a posthumous Grammy — her first — in the best spoken word album category, for "The Princess Diarist.
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Midway through the track, she swaps her effortless vocals for spoken word routine that stretches for almost two minutes.
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Aged 9, he wrote his first poem, a tale about monsters, and then, some years after, while studying at college, and sitting in on a visit from spoken word artist Suli Breaks, he made the decision to take spoken word seriously, performing some of his early pieces the next day in the canteen.
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In 1987, the Vermont senator released We Shall Overcome, a spoken word folk album he did with 30 Vermont artists.
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The feature automatically and pretty accurately transcribes the spoken word in near real time in up to 70 different languages.
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I started attending its events, including a road race, spoken word and poetry readings, and performances at Somali Independence Day.
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However, when it comes to finding spoken word or podcast content, the same sort of personalization efforts don't really exist.
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American Saturday Night: Live from the Grand Ole Opry (Various Artists) Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)
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We got Billie in Bev Hills Tuesday, hours after Carrie's 2016 memoir, "The Princess Diarist," earned a spoken word nom.
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Hunched over his gear, he mashed up hip-hop beats and raw guitar riffs, zany spoken word samples, and more.
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His short, spoken word section is thus: The track is billed as the partner to "XXX," which appeared on DAMN.
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In "Voices and Piano"—from which Ratmansky will excerpt—the music mimics the rhythms and pitches of the spoken word.
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This ensemble piece incorporates spoken word and new music composed by Ali Jackson of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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When I first started at comedy shows, I'd be asked if I was there to do spoken word or poetry.
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The album's final track, "In The Forests Keep," is mostly instrumental, except for a spoken word piece toward the end.
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To show off the country's more contemporary side, the actor and poet Malaika Uwamahoro will deliver a spoken-word component.
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Together we have the opportunity to chart the future of the spoken word on the world's most powerful audio platform.
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Another choice highlighted by the debates relates to the value voters will place on the power of the spoken word.
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In addition to Hudson's performance, Chicago rapper Common honored Bryant in a spoken word tribute that touched on his legacy.
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Obama received the nomination for best spoken word album at the upcoming awards show, which takes place on January 20163.
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The artists' combination of acoustic rhythms, R&B background beats, and radical spoken word is truly not to be missed.
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The spoken-word poems have been presented to over 10,000 high school students and viewed 1.5 million times on YouTube.
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Fisher, who died in December 2016, was honored with the best spoken word album award for her book The Princess Diarist.
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"Theres a lot of sampling throughout the record whether its just spoken word bits from YouTube or drum breaks," Dom notes.
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Amy Schumer's The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo received Grammy nominations for best spoken word album and best comedy album.
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If you think you know how to complain about airports, just listen to Benjamin Bratton's beatnik spoken-word fugue of polysyllables.
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Under Armour also paired each featured athlete with a spoken word artist, to create a video tribute that honors their accomplishments.
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I've been touring doing spoken word, but I'm slowing that down now because of acting and how things are taking off.
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His mother, Gloria, provides a spoken word outro to the record and, on "Smile," JAY-Z revealed that she is gay.
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"Need to write more / Freedom to fight more / Seek insight more / Ignite more," she says in a tone resembling spoken-word.
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She recalled learning about "declamación," a cousin of spoken word poetry that is performed in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America.
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Recording directly onto the laptop with an external microphone (like a podcast) is another way to capture the spoken-word history.
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It is too long, too unfocused and perhaps too democratic, with nearly every character receiving his or her spoken-word aria.
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After all, he said, the technology industry had expended vast efforts training computers to recognize celebrities, faces and the spoken word.
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In other words, it can tell the difference between the spoken word and, say, a recorded jam session in the studio.
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"I Think of Saturday" begins as a dark skeleton of a disco track, then disintegrates into grand piano and spoken word.
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She got her start in spoken word content at HarperCollins, where she led production, editorial, and marketing for their audiobook department.
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He brought in a spoken-word performer who inspired one young man to travel to Africa with the artist to study.
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"Master Rock" is a spoken-word and sound piece by Maria Fusco that involves a sonic landscape composed by Olivier Pasquet.
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The formal variety is on par with what you would get from any major anthology in the US (excepting spoken-word poetry).
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The Master's of Education student performed a spoken-word poem at Wednesday's 2016 Convocation Exercises for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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"We're building great technology from the ground up, designed for spoken word and applied to comedic performances," said the founder Dave Scott.
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The acting company is staying on, and we'll have a spoken word guest in addition to the two musical guests each week.
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But while it's tempting to say anything and everything via text, there are some things that still deserve the spoken-word treatment.
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The ad spot, which centered around a spoken word poem written and performed by Denise Frohman, was shown in black and white.
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At last night's Grammy Awards, Carrie Fisher won a posthumous award for Best Spoken Word Album for her book The Princess Diarist.
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Here, you can edit the spoken-word audio file much like you would a text document, which makes things a lot easier.
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Audible has a pretty unmatched selection of the best stories, with the world's largest selection of audiobooks and premium spoken-word entertainment.
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Does Joe Allen look like a man who wants to be delivering a soft, Welsh, spoken-word version The Real Slim Shady?
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In a new special for Netflix director Spike Lee revisits the incident through spoken-word artist Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show.
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A spoken-word appearance by Americans representative of different groups will also be featured at the Philadelphia event Wednesday, convention sources said.
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The songs are brief, ornamented with subtle bits of spoken word and patchwork soul samples that add moments of levity and warmth.
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The saying also surfaced, pluralized, in "Breathless," via a recorded spoken-word recitation by Mr. Blanchard's son, who goes by JRei Oliver.
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The total package also features spoken word, live music and Ms. Mearns's City Ballet colleagues Jared Angle and Gretchen Smith (0:50).
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As young people's poet laureate, I do want to know who's out there doing interesting stuff, both via written and spoken word.
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NEW ROCHELLE "Through the Decades," afternoon of live music and spoken word by members of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts.
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PEEKSKILL Carla Rae Johnson and Marcy B. Freedman will present spoken-word performances about the accomplishments of women in the work force.
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On "Elect Yourself," she lamented and admonished in a tumble of spoken word: "There's no freedom in society, only tradition," she said.
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Expect sung and spoken-word accompaniments, references to John F. Kennedy's 1961 moon shot speech, archival footage and a special surprise encore.
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The spoken word category includes Bruce Springsteen, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carrie Fisher, the songwriter Shelly Peiken and Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo.
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From 6 to 9, the center will offer spoken-word performances, music workshops and art-making stations devoted to this groundbreaking genre.
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But in time the former spoken word poet decided her first literary offering to the world should be more honest, more vulnerable.
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"Religion is a prison but truth sets us free," Franklin says on the album's opening track, an a-cappella spoken-word piece.
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Her time in Chicago's spoken-word circles granted her the seamless flows and inflections she used to fill her 20153 debut, Telefone.
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Since I wanted instead the movement and lightness of the spoken word, one step toward that was to do away with punctuation.
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He started writing in his free time around 2007 "I was joining local spoken word clubs, attending battles, collaborating on songs," he said.
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And Robin Sanders, the spoken word poet, used to choreograph for the New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis when I was taking ballet there.
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Antonoff and Dunham have collaborated throughout their romance, most recently on Bleachers' new LP Gone Now, which features spoken-word contributions by Dunham.
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A grand finale celebration on Saturday night will feature a spoken word poetry slam and a performance from popular R&B artist Miguel.
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Muldoon's Picnic (Monday) Mr. Muldoon, the poet and New Yorker editor, hosts this monthly spoken-word jamboree with his house band, Rogue Oliphant.
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The spoken-word artist Kate Tempest, the flamboyant American band The Flaming Lips and the musician and performance artist Jenny Hval will perform.
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By 19, she was New York City's Youth Poet Laureate and went on to star in the spoken word show Verses and Flow.
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The Atlanta rapper opened Pluto, his debut studio album, with a spoken word piece performed by Big Rube, member of Atlanta's Dungeon Family.
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"Everyone starts from somewhere, but where you start doesn't have to be where you end," intones Locke in a moving spoken-word voiceover.
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Oh, and there's also that thing about releasing what's almost certainly the world's only collection of spoken word Tim Kaine erotic fan fiction.
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Smith's style has a foot in slam and spoken word, scenes that reach people who might not buy a slim volume of poems.
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Wale popped in the late 2000s with an onslaught of mixtapes that joined go-go with relentless raps and spoken word-inspired bars.
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" The previous year, he took home the statuette in Best Spoken Word Album for Children for "Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf.
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It teases you with a ballad but suddenly surges, adopting a cheekily unconventional structure that mixes spoken word poetry and impressive vocal riffs.
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Were you always a performer, or did you get into singing, spoken word, and burlesque as part of the whole "bearded lady" act?
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At National Sawdust, she debuts "Intimate Strangers,"a new suite mixing music with spoken word, in collaboration with the Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma.
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The Brooklyn Museum event will illustrate this by gathering a group of poets and spoken-word artists to deliver their work alongside Sanchez's.
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Neil tried to close the book on their "flat Earth" beef by going on 'The Nightly Show' and doing a little spoken word.
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Among the wax cylinders in UC Berkeley's Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California.
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This year dozens more writers are scheduled to come; Sarah Kay, a successful American spoken-word poet, is one of the bigger draws.
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She is currently nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her work on the audiobook adaptation of her memoir.
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When you need to switch off, you can take your pick from the world's largest selection of audiobooks and premium spoken-word entertainment.
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One afternoon, Nona Hendryx (of the singing group Labelle) performed a spoken-word piece over chords generated from her brainwaves via a sensor.
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The stage piece (reviewed in The New York Times in 2014) uses dance, song and spoken word, combined with various forms of stagecraft.
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Nearly two-dozen short pieces — theater, dance and spoken word — will be folded into one marathon performance at the Goodman Theater on Aug.
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We've got a transition that Pandora never did it for spoken word, we have to get that bridged in the next couple months.
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I didn't quite know what to make of their rhythmic compositions and riot grrrl-inflected spoken word—but I couldn't look away, either.
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Elsewhere she makes room for joyful abandon, existential terror, twisted Springsteen covers, and a spoken word piece about transforming into a smelly baby.
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Getting the word out What we need in our lives: Fewer boring, conventional commencement speeches; more exciting, spoken-word performances, like this Harvard grad's.
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But they're given new shape through Xiomara's/Acevedo's free-flowing verses, which merge spoken-word and hip-hop tropes with an appropriately teenage plainspokenness.
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At 56, Rollins is now a successful spoken word performer, writer and actor who blurs the lines between comedy, confessional poetry and motivational speaking.
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On interlude "The Man Who Married a Robot / Love Theme," for example, Siri does a spoken word monologue about the ills of the internet.
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And yet the film is bookended by some genuinely thoughtful spoken-word poetry that hints at heavy, important questions of social and political turmoil.
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So if you're one of the millions that use ASMR and other soothing spoken word compositions for relaxation, you'll have to wait it out.
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We dominated poetry, spoken word, and essay contests, often competing on the national level and only losing when the wealthy schools came to town.
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Using music, spoken word, and video, artist Carrie Mae Weems updates this classic story for a contemporary context in her theatrical production Past Tense.
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"Heaney is so good at the spoken word, he speaks from himself, yet the words escape him and become relevant to all," she said.
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On "Aleph," the relatively unknown Canadian-born musician Chloé Raunet supplied spoken-word narration, amplifying the album's themes of addiction, violence, and self-immolation.
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"The Language of Resistance" is the theme for Saturday night, with a program of poetry and spoken word dealing with state violence against women.
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Ejiofor transforms Scar's song, "Be Prepared," into an edgy, spoken-word rallying cry to the hyenas, who he enlists as part of his plot.
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Institutional violence is met with spoken-word molotovs, sandpapered found samples, and production that sounds like Black Dice remixing Pete Rock (or vice versa).
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Lyrically, Somewhere... has more in common with rappers like Atmosphere or spoken word artists like Levi the Poet than anything in its own world.
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Although the piece isn't intentionally diaristic, each iteration of the performance contains new audiovisual data from their trips, as well as spoken word elements.
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So fundamentally, we're trying to take the privacy of the spoken word and we're trying to port that to the convenience of digital communication.
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Working with half a dozen women from the congregation's choir and dance group, she led a fusion of spoken word, vocal performance, and movement.
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Utilizing a modular setup in conjunction with field recordings and some spoken word samples, Eilbacher constructs four pieces that prize transformation above all else.
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Starring the spoken word artist Saul Williams, Tonya Pinkins ("Caroline, or Change") and Christopher Jackson ("Hamilton"), it closed after 17 previews and 38 performances.
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In the first rehearsal, he played the spoken word from "A Dancer's World" [the 1957 film about the choreographer], and you hear her voice.
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He has built a following through raw performances in spoken-word events around the city, drawing from his life in South L.A.'s neighborhoods.
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The festival as a whole will offer more than 100 free shows spanning pop music, opera, dance, and spoken word across the five boroughs.
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" The Last Poets' David Nelson's spoken-word call-to-action, asking of the crowd, "Are you ready to smash white things, to burn buildings?
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" The Last Poets' David Nelson's spoken-word call-to-action, asking of the crowd, "Are you ready to smash white things, to burn buildings?
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And he was responsible for many of the spoken-word and visual elements that gave the Art Ensemble its reputation for multi-platform expression.
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Delivered in a style that sounds more like spoken word than rap, Kojey's lyrics get deep into his feelings and underneath the listener's skin.
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"As I've gotten older, I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me," Ronan told Foster.
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And the spoken word guest will kind of be replacing the monologue a little bit, but there will be comedians in that slot as well.
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She is currently working on her debut novel, building her own marketing business, and writing and performing spoken word poetry across the US and UK.
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That is, the term "audio" also includes non-music streams like spoken word recordings and podcasts – the latter of which has also seen rapid growth.
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The video for "Praying," the first single from Rainbow, is heavily derivative of Lemonade's "Hold Up," spoken-word interlude, baseball bat, flowing gown and all.
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The term is rarely used anymore, because the monopoly over the printed and spoken word that gave the press its power is now gone. Why?
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A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender, a hard-hitting spoken-word performance by Mumbai girl, Aranya Johar, will strike a chord with every Indian woman.
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Deviating slightly from Turner's previous releases, the song maintains an almost club-ready backbone but combines it with spoken word and an earworm-like hook.
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Dreams, staged in October, delivered an expanded program that included spoken word poetry by Max Stossel, animated works from YoYo Lin, sound installations, and more.
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You might get an impassioned lesson in PaulXStretch plugins from a spoken word poet explaining how he timed a Bill Withers song beneath his prose.
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They read excerpts from the deeply critical book about President Donald Trump's first year in office, ostensibly as contenders for a spoken word Grammy prize.
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Audible offers an unmatched selection of the best stories and lets you pick from the world's largest selection of audiobooks and premium spoken-word entertainment.
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" A spoken word introduction calmly explains how he'd like to "take a pig out into the parking lot and shoot them in the motherfucking face.
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"We've created Trint to go far beyond automated transcription, building the world's first enterprise product for managing the workflow of the spoken word," says Kofman.
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So, one of my favorite film directors, Alfred Hitchcock, did a series of these spoken word records where he's telling ghost-stories which is brilliant.
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Even this was a multi-day affair, culminating in a swing through Iowa where he gave his spoken-word pitch while standing on coffeeshop countertops.
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The free event, open to the public, brings together indigenous artists, chiefs, medicine makers and others for performances of music, the spoken word and more.
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"Chelsea Manning is getting out of prison this week, which is reason to celebrate," Michael Stipe says on a spoken word intro to the record.
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Through spoken word, video, theater, and books, Gómez-Peña brings his insightful and often humorous perspective to contemporary issues of culture, race, gender, and politics.
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The performance, which combines spoken word, dance, procession, music, and costume, was performed at the UN headquarters, and Barbata describes the piece as a protest.
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I missed this barnburner essay by Rebecca Watts in PNR, "The Cult of the Noble Amateur," about popular spoken-word poets and why they're bad.
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In this hypothetical, let's input and analyze all available written and spoken word — from mainstream media commentary to the most obscure one-off crank pamphlets.
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Her spoken word performance "A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender" went viral in 2017 with more than a million views in the first two days.
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Instead of choosing a few students to speak, each class does a joyful dance/spoken-word performance that explores a theme they've been working on.
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Vanessa German, an artist, will perform a spoken-word opera she has composed for the opening reception of the exhibition, which runs through May 11.
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"The Pull of You" starts with van Etten shifts into a literal conversation with masculine and feminine spoken word sections from van Etten, Berninger, and Hannigan.
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Over the course of their romance, Antonoff and Dunham collaborated together on projects, including the Bleachers' LP Gone Now, which features spoken-word contributions by Dunham.
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The new Rap of China roughly translates to "China's new spoken word and song," instead of "China's hip-hop" and features artists in more conservative dress.
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To be sure, there isn't a tiara to be seen in the new visuals, which begin with a spoken word introduction from the 15-year-old.
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He puts his distinctly Samsonian spin on it with frail, minimal guitar work accompanying his overly enunciated singing style that borders on a spoken word delivery.
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A whirring musical background, like insects in a lower pitch, wove through the performance, sometimes overwhelming the spoken word, which proved less interesting than the visuals.
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Nick Cannon is lashing out at the Oscars for giving black actors the shaft this year, but unlike other protesters, Nick struck back ... in spoken word.
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I picked up objects and listened to the spoken-word memories they evoked, and I enjoyed staring at the scenery and listening to the natural symphony.
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The visual language, designed to aid the deaf or hard of hearing, is a set of gesticulations and hand movements that correspond to the spoken word.
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"Agitated/Scattering in all directions/Drawn/Accumulated/Lines of fire/Assembling at full acceleration," goes one memorable spoken word section, as celestial strings and synthesizers swell.
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I think I've never had any problem putting spoken word or profanity if you want to call it profanity or anything whatever the subject matter is.
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Spoken-word interstitials find Remy asking her collaborators the most hurtful thing anyone ever said to them, and what advice they would give their teenage selves.
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Young people of color, including my students, were also inspired to translate their anger into direct political action as well as the written and spoken word.
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Using Art to Tackle Diabetes in Youth The Bigger Picture campaign uses spoken-word poems and music videos to highlight how Type 2 diabetes impacts communities.
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Spoken word: One of our Opinion columnists recorded voice memos to remember column ideas and turns of phrase — even full paragraphs and outlines of his articles.
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A visual and spoken-word artist as well as a writer, Gurba has a voice as distinct and infectious as any I've discovered in recent years.
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She uses the rhythms and speech patterns of spoken word poetry in a strong mixture of Spanish and English, to speak of familial ties and heritage.
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Below we excerpt a few spoken-word stories that were collected by a project called Handwritten and performed at the Bronx Library Center in late April.
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While some audio purists may fuss about sound quality from an external CD player, spoken-word tracks are more forgiving to the ears than complex music.
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After a year where we saw T.I. deliver a spoken word performance declaring social media activism futile and RZA rep "All Lives Matter," this should be refreshing.
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So far, their guests have included spoken word artist Prince Ea, model-turned-NASA-engineer Michelle Easter, and LGBTQ activist and former Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe.
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Like the scholarly cove he has become, Bowie enjoys making connections between stuff, from fusions of the spoken word with music to the griot storytellers of Africa.
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Van Bramer's approach to invite government officials and local Broadway stars — who performed beautiful songs and spoken-word pieces — clearly managed to draw numbers to the cause.
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Despite juggling multiple jobs, Cannon also makes time to take on several political and social justice causes close to his heart through his weekly "Spoken Word" videos.
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Out by 10 (Friday) This spoken-word series, founded by the writer Susan Seliger, celebrates Valentine's Day with two shows that provide humorous takes on the holiday.
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An "ally" of Alkan and Norris, Savage concludes the record with a spoken word piece, "Third Mynd," partially extracted from CIA reports of LSD experimentation on citizens.
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In a spoken-word breakdown, Thompson contemplates asking Michelle Obama to run in 2020, but decides against it, "Naw, let's not put Michelle through that," he adds.
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Shatner added spoken word verses to "In Love," playing a lecherous older man who'd read up on '90s new age material in an effort to seduce women.
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Using spoken word, fashion and lyrics about relationships, infidelity, empowerment and love, the singer presented her new music Saturday night in a series of stylized music videos.
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You may know Mary Lambert from her featured role on Macklemore's "Same Love," but the singer and spoken-word poet has done so much more since then.
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At the end of "Sissy," they fire out a spoken-word rap about a catcaller heckling them while they're walking home from a bar in a dress.
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The Girls Trip star deservedly earned a nod for best spoken word album for the audio version of her uproarious yet poignant memoir, The Last Black Unicorn.
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As I walked up, that whispering—it turns out, a multichannel spoken-word piece by the Norwegian artist Ann Lislegaard—morphed into sounds more wonderful and strange.
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That's reflected in the range of vocal approaches he takes on "Blonde": heavy-sigh exhalation, digitally manipulated childlike singing, forceful spoken word, sleepy-eyed rapping, obscured conversation.
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The former first lady snagged a nomination in the Spoken Word category for the audio version of her book, "Becoming," when the Grammy contenders were announced Wednesday.
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Oh, what the hell, I thought, blurry from booze and grass, it's a benediction from a wise elder, the demigod of punk-as-fuck spoken-word rants.
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He even argued that writing ought to be considered the original precursor, because it enabled the previously auditory experience of the spoken word to be presented visually.
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Pieced together from a carnivalesque assemblage of spoken word pieces, scraps of noise, and non-repetitive song structures, the record deals with themes of illness and embodiment.
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People read short stories, recited poems and spoken word, and rocked the audience into fits of laughter with stories of failed attempts to win back lost loves.
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Accompanied by English subtitles translating the French spoken word lyrics, the video alternates between lo-fi footage and high definition shots, befitting of the track's gloomy vibes.
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Through a combination of rap and spoken word overlaying the film, Ahmed describes the brutal reality for people of color living in a xenophobic post-Brexit Britain.
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Fiedler cited a series of spoken-word performances by University of Michigan-Flint (UM-F) students that probed the causes and effects of widespread arson in 2010.
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Golden moderated the sold-out keynote conversation, which featured Bill T. Jones, spoken-word poet and playwright Marc Bamuthi Joseph, artist Julie Mehretu, and musician Toshi Reagon.
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Part of the BAMkids series, they honor National Poetry Month by exploring the rhythms — verbal, musical and physical — that infuse spoken-word performance and hip-hop culture.
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There is less in the way of spoken word of Geralt and we don't have the luxury of an inner monologue which we have in the books.
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Even so, each vocal technique implies a certain distance, from the mere arm's reach of a quietly spoken word to the torpedo aim of an operatic soprano.
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With Christopher Bruce's "Ten Poems," however, the only music is the spoken word: recordings by the actor Richard Burton of poems by his fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas.
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The Chicago rapper Noname, a disciple of spoken word and Def Poetry Jam, has nimble wordplay and a warm, unruffled voice that work even better over beats.
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It was also shaped by her experience doing spoken-word performances, another populist branch of poetry that's often slammed (pun intended) for its ignorance of literary craft.
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In Nashville, she is collaborating with two poets, Caroline Randall Williams and Ciona Rouse, on a book and spoken-word project imagining a blues woman named Rosie.
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At the end of the evening, she screened an ad for her book in which she emerges from a bleeding vagina and delivers a spoken-word poem.
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That said, I can't think of anything I'd rather hear than Alex Turner doing spoken word about an All-American monster truck rally, so fingers crossed he delivers.
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Using spoken word, fashion and lots of lyrics about relationships, infidelity, empowerment and love, Beyonce presented her new music Saturday night in a serious of stylized music videos.
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A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing hip-hop artist Drake of copyright infringement for sampling a spoken-word recording from 1982.
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In "Samedi Détente," Dorothée Munyaneza uses spoken word, dance and music to explore the Rwandan genocide that forced her from her Kigali home at the age of 12.
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It offers an impressively curated collection of books for sale in collaboration with independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, as well as regular spoken word events and book readings.
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As I walked up, that whis- pering—it turns out, a multichannel spoken-word piece by the Norwegian artist Ann Lislegaard—morphed into sounds more wonderful and strange.
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It includes a long spoken-word segment, mostly lifted from a quote in a piece written by journalist Ron Suskind at the New York Times Magazine in 2004.
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Rebecca brought something so important to the project, too — imagine me telling Chanti's story [Chanti is a biracial student working out gender identity and race through spoken word].
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" The late senator, who was an Illinois Republican, won a Best Spoken Word Grammy in 1968 -- the year before he died -- for "Gallant Men: Stories of American Adventure.
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The HBO special, which was shot primarily in New Orleans, featured cameos from Serena Williams and Jay Z, with spoken-word interludes from Beyoncé, local residents and others.
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Her deeply creative experiments with sound, frequently combining spoken word with stirring instrumentals, untether you from a world of musical references where songs have kinships to other songs.
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Opener "Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull" kicks off with a spoken word clip about how the classics go out of style and, inevitably, everything will.
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Just a week after his old band's breakup, Welsh and early MC bandmember Matthew E. Duffy put out an intriguing, sax and spoken word-laden record as Belave.
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During one of several spoken word interludes, she cradles herself on the ground, removes a shoe, and slaps herself with it, seemingly evoking traumatic scenes from her childhood.
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My voracious appetite for spoken-word audio led me to discover a treasure: the free audiobooks on LibriVox, a storehouse of public-domain literature narrated by volunteer readers.
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But Swamp Dogg turned up as a spoken-word guest, reminiscing about his career, on the 2018 album "Dimensional People" by the German electronic group Mouse on Mars.
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And in "Chicago Stories," with Mr. Emanuel, this combative mayor recasts himself as a kinder, gentler interlocutor of anodyne local figures, like brewery owners and spoken-word poets.
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The album's title is a reference to the producer's Korean name—which translates in English to "to be good"—and spoken word lyrics are delivered in both languages.
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Obviously they are way better than Apple AirPods, but the lack of active noise cancellation is noticeable when listening to spoken word in a loud environment, for example.
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Her new show, "Patti Smith: Words and Music at the Minetta Lane," will be a combination of original autobiographical spoken-word stories and songs from Ms. Smith's catalog.
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The eight hundred thousand albums, cylinder recordings, and snippets of spoken word make up a great deal of the history of recorded music, and recorded sound in general.
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And let's face it: Dancing to spoken word is hardly groundbreaking, and neither is "Voices," but the ballet world is sometimes clueless about the rest of the field.
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Malik, 44, who is known in France as an author and spoken-word artist as much as a musician, has mostly stayed faithful to the existentialist playwright's text.
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On weekends I went up to Chicago to perform spoken word poetry at clubs like Rituals, on which "Love Jones," a film popular with African-Americans, was based.
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A pharmacy case of nootropics is on display in the center of the room, and the words of tech companies' manifestos pipe through speakers, like spoken-word poetry.
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Caridad de la Luz, the spoken word poet known as La Bruja, unscrolled a river of paper on which she had scrawled, in looping black pen, her paean.
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Along with the film critic Amy Taubin and other special guests, these musicians are gathering tonight to pay homage to the pioneering filmmaker through song and spoken word.
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An article released on Wednesday in JAMA highlights some of the latest spoken-word videos, which were released on The Bigger Picture website and spread via social media.
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We know his every movement, his every spoken word, and the fifteen minutes he spent walking around a zombie-infested room making sure that he hasn't missed any collectibles.
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Milx careens between guttural rasps, hoarse roars, gritted-teeth spoken word, a husky croon (see the breathless vocal harmonies on the discomfitingly pretty opening of "Lights in the Sky").
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Some of the film's audio (mostly news reports) is already layered into cacophony, and the rest could easily be delivered as spoken word monologues punctuated with heavy musical beats.
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You can take your pick from the world's largest selection of audiobooks and premium spoken-word entertainment for 50% less than the list price for a whole four months.
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" Actress Ashley Judd later joined Moore on stage, where she recited a poem from 19-year-old spoken word poet Nina Donovan that began: "I am a naaaaasty woman.
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Jae Nichelle has a special relationship with her anxiety — one the spoken word poet describes as "a friends-with-benefits relationship" in a performance now going viral on Twitter.
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Mick Foley is extremely lucky he didn't die, as he quite readily admitted in a remarkable combination spoken word/comedy set shown on the WWE Network after Sunday's show.
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"One of the many projects that we're working on within Area 120 is Shortwave, which helps users discover and consume spoken-word audio in new ways," the spokesperson said.
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If I spend my days watching alarmist rants about refugee resettlement and tirades about Islam, the odds of YouTube suggesting Arshad's poignant spoken word piece about Islamophobia seem slim.
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" Besides "Prairie Wife," Ms. Ebert wrote another full-length book of poetry, "Crazy Quilt," a chapbook of Christmas poems and a spoken-word album titled "Live From Thunder Hawk.
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The spoken word at the beginning where she's like, "Let me die, it's too painful to live" and then you see these colorful images that life is worth living.
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That whole thing about spoken word records where he had some people read Fire and Fury and he was so fucking stoked that Hillary Clinton was in it. 33.
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That happened during our first show, which also featured contemporary visual artists, spoken word artists, poets and musicians, a handful of whom were debut acts or first-time performers.
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It's all reasonable save mid-album intermission "Widow's Peak," a spooky bit of spoken word that's just a few inches away from bubble, bubble, toil and trouble-style cackling.
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" Then, Gloria herself takes the mic for a moving spoken-word outro, in which she talks about "living two lives" and living "with the fear of just being me.
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George the Poet – "Spoken Word" Sam Milton and Will Kennard, who make up the bass duo Chase & Status, have enlisted George The Poet for their new '90s-inspired single.
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Bernie Sanders on Tuesday became the most recent politician to pick up a Grammy nomination for the Spoken Word category, which often honors politicians with popular books and audiobooks.
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He came out with Black Boy Blues a few months back, a six-track EP of hip hop that almost sounds like spoken word, smoky electronics and spacey beats.
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Over the past year, he's facilitated political discussion at spoken word nights and run workshops on how everything from music to graffiti tagging to breakdancing can empower local communities.
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It really does have it all: the most gonzo, acid-fried premise, a straight faced spoken word monologue about discovering the earth after it has been destroyed by man.
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Now it feels commonplace; every artist I've met from the UK in the past decade has a libretto or a text or a spoken word performance ready to go.
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Before finding his passion for the spoken word, Gata regularly took BronCleer, a cough syrup often smuggled in from South Africa that contains codeine, a painkiller similar to morphine.
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Soon she was producing the "Soulution Spontaneous Groove Open Jam" — a night of hip-hop, spoken word, gospel, rock and drag — at clubs like Nation, SOB's and the Tunnel.
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Outside, long lines of people wait to get into the weekly spoken word competitions, and many of the young faces in the audience and onstage are black or brown.
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The actress Jordana Spiro directed "Night Comes On" and wrote the script with Angelica Nwandu, a spoken-word poet and creator of the incisive gossip website The Shade Room.
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Drivers are a captive audience, but one that has up to now had a relatively limited amount of entertainment created for it, focusing mainly on music and spoken word.
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Boiled down to its absolute essentials, in a mixture of spoken word and musical chunks, the story and the music captivated for its two — as opposed to 15 — hours.
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"Lie" could've been an album highlight if the whole song sounded like the first verse: a brutally honest stream of consciousness, reminiscent of spoken-word poetry, with minimal production.
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At the open-mike nights around Dublin where the friends perform spoken-word poetry together, Bobbi ignores any guy who tries to chat them up, leaving him to Frances.
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Among other changes, the creators have added spoken-word sections into the number "Ghetto Gospel," written by students in the ensemble who attend Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University.
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This April, several performers were arrested after satirizing the armed forces in a traditional Thangyat performance, a spoken-word style play with a long history of comedic social commentary.
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Regardless of the musical style or spoken word tracks I tried, the Sony WF-1000XM3 headphones always delivered excellent audio performance with plenty of bass and a wide soundstage.
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The avant-garde style that King Missile developed bridged Patti Smith and Weird Al: vivid spoken-word narratives delivered with smirking derision, rattled over jaunty organ and spiky guitar.
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As you can see from that spoken word video back in 2012, and as her music videos have screamed since, Sho Madjozi is a force to be reckoned with.
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Alexander: So our album starts off with an acknowledgement and a discourse (in the form of spoken word) about the universe's creation and expansion, and how scientists figured that out.
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This includes spoken-word recordings from publishers like the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Charlie Rose, McSweeney's, The Onion and other periodicals.
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Stumping at a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, former Alaska Governor and noted spoken word MC Sarah Palin attributed her son Track's recent domestic violence incident to Obama-induced PTSD.
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The whole web is chattering about this nutso song, which is equal parts "I'm Too Sexy" and Gossip Girl soundtrack, with a little bit of The Ring-inspired spoken word.
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The program begins Tuesday evening with #SayHerName, a multi-act performance curated by Abby Dobson that employs song, movement, and spoken word to honor black female victims of police violence.
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In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-10 spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
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Lyrically, it's a message to Cosentino's fans, who need "a hero not a wreck," and it includes a spoken-word section that both thrilled her and thoroughly freaked her out.
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Recently, the Basic Instinct actress released a spoken word poem in praise of California congresswoman Maxine Waters, and Tuesday night, Desus and Mero decided to transform it into a rap.
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The speaker is surprisingly loud for its size, and while it's rather terrible for listening to music, it is clear and crisp for Alexa's responses or hearing spoken word content.
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But it is the improbable success of this international speaking competition -- and its 298-year-old sponsor, Toastmasters International -- that offers striking evidence for the durability of the spoken word.
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He's joined by other yoga experts, a kirtan master and musician, a spoken-word performer and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, a woman he works with who's become his sidekick of sorts.
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It hosts an eclectic array of weekly and monthly events, everything from DJ parties to live music, dance performance to World Cup parties, film screenings, art exhibitions, and spoken word.
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After that spoken word intro, "Goodness Pt. 2" is the origin story, elaborating on the album cover's portrayal of the New England wilderness as an Edenic setting for spiritual rejuvenation.
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In a viral spoken word poem about being a girl, 13-year-old Olivia Vella poignantly describes many of these tough aspects of girlhood, from cliques to sexist beauty standards.
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Audible, Amazon's audiobook and spoken-word subsidiary, on Thursday announced Channels, a subscription service that will offer a new library of audio, including original programs, articles read aloud and more.
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The track features a spoken-word poem read by Mr. Akinmusire in the voice of Oscar Grant III, who was shot and killed by a transit officer in Oakland, Calif.
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They'd get a rallying cry from both women and men (the good ones, anyway) if they exhibited the same fierceness in a boardroom, or a Wednesday night spoken word performance.
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Older than you seem, you work in ads or branded content, but wake up face burning in the night about the time no one clapped at your spoken word reading.
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After all, like Erik Erikson said, "I am what survives me," and at the end of the day, a Swiss Army knife's steel will survive longer than the spoken word.
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" The track is "I Thought About Killing You," much of which is a spoken-word recitation about murderous and suicidal impulses over a cappella voices intoning, "I know, I know.
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"Not in So Many Words" focuses on art that employs text — letters, words, sentences, fragments and the spoken word — and undermines the notion that art is a primarily visual medium.
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It's because of the fact that you're taking all the universal elements of human expression: the human voice, music, light, sound, movement, the written word and the spoken word, poetry.
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The former presidential candidate and actor Mark Ruffalo were nominated Tuesday in the spoken word category for the audiobook of "Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In," Sanders's 28503 tome.
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The Soviet Union, and left totalitarianism in general, is a culture of the written word; the Third Reich, and right authoritarianism in general, is a culture of the spoken word.
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The language of "Dust," and the demands it places on singers to control pitch and rhythm of the spoken word, are rarely called for outside of Ashley's body of work.
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Last May, Steppenwolf — whose members include John Malkovich and Gary Sinise — opened its third stage, an 80-seat black-box theater for intimate shows ranging from dance to spoken word.
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Its use of the spoken word kept us clear about emotions and facts; its four men went through fairly conventional, occasionally trite, forms of mutual supportiveness, with little dance interest.
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Starting in the '80s, his hard-core music, confrontational spoken-word pieces, and he-man persona consciously used virility to attack itself — something that Idles now does just as avidly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's incredible archive of music and spoken word is newly accessible through a redesigned Smithsonian Folkways Recordings site.
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Welcoming the complete cast, first lady Michelle Obama recalled the first time she and her husband President Obama saw Lin-Manuel – who stars as Alexander Hamilton – perform the spoken word piece.
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He perfected his William Carlos Williams, spoken-word style on Quora, the site where users crowdsource answers to random questions, and recently penned a how-to blog post on the technique.
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She's also a poet, and last year, she performed a powerful spoken-word piece criticizing the fashion industry for its lack of diversity, both in terms of size and skin color.
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Jive Poetic from the Insurgent Poets Society read a spoken word poem that addressed gentrification in Brooklyn (the poem was recorded by Hyperallergic and it is posted in the video below).
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The record culminates with "Ten Times A Day, Every Day, A Stranger," a spoken-word piece, in which a man describes the innate horror of walking through the day with depression.
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In her spoken-word narrative, she engages works by Picasso, Renoir, Courbet, Corot, Cézanne, and the like, creating a rich dialogue with the paintings via a download on your cell phone.
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For generations, humanity's primary means of communication across distance was the written word: a shortcoming so critical that technology needed to be invented to fill the gap for the spoken word.
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Lead single "Tractor," which we're premiering today, puts Linda at the fore, her unhinged vocal performance moving from outright screams to a bridge teetering on the edge of spoken word performance.
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Lyricism is the core of the album, as she fills the spaces of the 13-track project with soulful melodies, fast-paced raps, and spoken-word interludes so sharp they sting.
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It was a concept album, delivered through rhythmic spoken word, which told the doomed tale of two fictional hustlers named Sport and Spoon, with instrumental backing provided by Kool & The Gang.
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The only bum note in Michelle Tea's new essay collection Against Memoir is in a piece about her time on the road in the queer feminist spoken-word collective Sister Spit.
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The spoken-word elements of the show became the main draw by the mid-'224s, and they appealed to enough people that in 22011 Time magazine put Keillor on its cover.
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On a fundamental level it combines spoken word and screamo – two forms of expression that, even in isolation, are almost impossible to bring up in conversation without someone taking the piss.
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Usually in a singing challenge the girls that are tone deaf or can't carry a tune can squeak by performing a rap or some sort of poetry slam spoken word thing.
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There were performances from dream-pop acts Kississippi and Adult Mom, as well as spoken word pieces from Urban Word, a poetry collective that criticized misogyny, racism and Sunday's Pride March.
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Instead, the theater is inviting singers, dancers, comedians, rappers, spoken-word artists, musicians and variety acts to submit videos up to five minutes long to audition for its 2020-21 season.
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The album features his father's reel-to-reel tape recordings from the 1970s and spoken-word segments from the user manual of the computer model that gave the album its name.
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Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as the first album built entirely from samples, Endtroducing was a fluid but intricate amalgam of classic funk beats, rap acapellas, and spoken word snippets.
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The daylong tribute there -- which featured speeches, videos, and singing and spoken-word performances -- was largely held in the courtyard of the motel, now home to the National Civil Rights Museum.
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As one of the hosts of "Marlon and Jake Read Dead People," a new podcast whose first two episodes will be available Monday, he does something similar with the spoken word.
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Ms. Crean's past projects have built on social practice work with various groups in the city, for instance with spoken-word artists in the Bronx or young Muslim women in Queens.
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The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.
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But as a spoken word performer, radio host and, notably, a widely read columnist at LA Weekly, he has reinvented himself as a political voice that is similarly hard to ignore.
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She even made sure to include some of Warsan Shire's gorgeous spoken-word poetry from Lemonade's heartbroken interstitials, reminding everyone that the album is as deeply emotional as it is catchy.
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Ms. Crean's past projects have built on social practice work with various groups in the city, for instance with spoken-word artists in the Bronx or young Muslim women in Queens.
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Program B (on Thursday and March 23) includes Pigeonwing Dance, a solo by Parijat Desai, a mix of dance and spoken word by MBDance and an excerpt from Ephrat Asherie Dance.
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Now, she's serving up a prelude to her debut album with I Used To Know Her (The Prelude), a 20-minute collection of smooth R&B with sharp spoken word moments.
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The Ben Carson campaign, one of the biggest spenders in Iowa with more than $2.6 million on television, ran an ad without a single spoken word (except the required "I approve" statement).
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READ MORE: The Jewish tailor who made Elvis' most famous suit 1962: Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday" to JFK OK, so it's more of a breathy, spoken-word performance than a song.
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Slam poets have been using the spoken word to question politics, express identity, and connect with their audience since the mid-1980s, more than a decade before Aranya Johar was even born.
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Story Collider: Fight or Flight (Tuesday) The Story Collider, a science-minded spoken word series and podcast, welcomes its latest batch of raconteurs for five tales of moments when adrenaline kicked in.
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You need to see and hear the spoken word interstitials born from Warsan Shire's poetry, the home movies yanked from Beyoncé's childhood, or Malcolm X's speech about the devaluation of black women.
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Henry Rollins, while in Australia for his spoken word tour, appeared on the panel show The Project and gorgeously summed up the ridiculousness of the push against marriage equality in the country.
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The mood breathes from ambient sound and spoken word to a handful of more straightforward pop anthems that wouldn't sound out of place at the tail end of an early Björk record.
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Sticking to his M.O. of airy synth noodling, creamy basslines, and the occasionally soft-spoken word, the title track ebbs and flows like the waves on your local stretch of sandy beach.
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Like most of Kozelek's work since his 2014 Sun Kil Moon record Benji, it's a stream-of-consciousness spoken word track delivered so casually that it can lull the listener into stasis.
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The festival's senior programmer for literature and spoken word, Ted Hodgkinson, tells me that the festival was created from "a kind of awakening going on" in terms of arts and mental health.
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"A lot of the spoken word samples on the album came from watching very British things while I was away on tour because I missed home," the xx member told The FADER.
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Billed as psychedelic spoken word, "Let Me Hang You" (Khannibalism/Ernest Jenning Record Co.) will be released on July 15 via King Khan's new label, with updated ambient accompaniment for the author.
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I listened to both music and spoken word to test the audio performance, either from locally stored sources on a few different phones, or through streaming apps like Spotify or Google Podcasts.
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In addition to the music, I highly recommend listening to the compelling work of Warsan Shire, the 26-year-old poet who provided the stirring spoken-word transitions throughout the visual album.
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So they would have a three-day music festival and put on workshops promoting different crafts, different women in the business, they'd put on spoken word performances, all different kinds of things.
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Their humming gave way to spoken-word artist and playwright Cyrus Aaron, who appeared on the runway and recited his poem "More Money, More Problems," which was written specifically for the show.
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She has ended each of her four albums, so far, with gut-wrenching spoken-word missives—no music, just Harris and a mic—that grapple with the residual pain from her past.
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Over time, he began building his performances around music and spoken-word sections that address his religion and cultural background — "which can be surprisingly jarring and political to the audience," he said.
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Performing under the moniker Moor Mother, she culls textures from rap, punk, free jazz, spoken word and noise, creating musical missives on a range of injustices, including domestic abuse and state violence.
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Over time, though, highly refined penmanship styles, visual equivalents to the cadences of the spoken word, were designed specifically for the Quran, and masters of those styles were revered as cultural stars.
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It then steers the airplane on a descent, alerting local traffic and air traffic control to the emergency via preprogrammed text and spoken-word messages it can voice itself over the radio.
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"We're in this world where we are overwhelmed by spoken word that's recorded, and it piles up and up," says Jeffrey Kofman, the CEO and founder of Trint, an AI transcription firm.
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The bit shows Grammy host James Corden holding auditions for the book reading in hopes of nabbing next year's best spoken word album with famous musicians trying out for the coveted role.
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However, the average library goer might be intimidated by such a vast resource, with choices not just including all genres of music, but speeches, radio plays, field recordings, and spoken word performances.
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This story about an aspiring spoken word artist and writer, Darius (Larenz Tate), and Nina the photographer (Nia Long) begins in a smoke-filled poetry lounge, and ends in a fiery romance.
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Into that environment of mistrust and malaise came a remarkable cultural document, a spoken-word album issued that year by Marion Morrison, better known to Americans by his stage name, John Wayne.
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Even aside from the self-reflective spoken-word opening the song (which is not unsimilar to Beyoncé's opening track "Pray You Catch Me"), Kesha's wardrobe and affect are eerily similar at times.
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Blood Orange: Freetown Sound (Domino) Don't let the spoken-word samples that signify Dev Hynes's intellectual ambitions distract you from the smartest stuff here—namely, the choruses that beckon you through them.
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Today, while browsing Spotify for songs about Facebook for reasons that are personal to me, I accidentally stumbled across a new spoken-word album called Self Actualization and Life Changing Affirmations for Millennials.
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This is practically the only place to catch spoken word poetry, up-and-coming soul acts and events like the Bar Exam, where a rap battle meets American Idol, under the same roof.
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The book follows two university students, ex-girlfriends and spoken-word poetry performers Frances and Bobbi, as they fall in with a thirtysomething couple, successful essayist and photographer Melissa and handsome actor Nick.
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Like Danez Smith, Gibson continues to make a name for themselves performing spoken word around the country, but the poems in Lord of the Butterflies flutter off the page of their own accord.
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Since it's on vinyl you actually have to spend time with it, flip it over... So you're forced to sit down with sides A and B of William Shatner's spoken word space album.
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Many of the visual traditions within Shakespeare's plays reveal aesthetic ideals and concepts; showcasing the relevance between the visual image, the spoken word, and the overall integration of the arts into his work.
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Audio, the spoken word, is humanity's primary means of sentient communication: the sounds a fetus hears in utero; a lover's whisper; a marriage proposal… all leave deep imprints on our hearts and minds.
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The singer mixed those feelings with a variety of musical styles, including rock and roll-inspired guitar riffs, operatic high notes and spoken-word interludes worthy of the cheesiest boy band slow jam.
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A spoken word poet's Facebook Live video calling out white privilege has more than 7 million views and counting in the wake of two viral videos depicting fatal police shootings of black men.
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The spoken word sample of a speech by Lana Wachowski indicates the latter—that to find our way to better worlds, we first have to activate the worlds we keep hidden within us.
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Few songs stick out in the Gorillaz discography like "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" does, and it's all due to Dennis Hopper, and his faithful reading of the spoken word part.
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The spoken-word bits at the beginning serve to veil the song in hushed intimacy; her Auto-Tuned garble ("demuh-uh-uh-un") signals that she can't quite put her feelings into words.
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Somewhere... counts jazz, blues, spoken word, screamo, prog rock and metalcore among its influences, but it's not really an album you'd recommend to someone based on their interest in any of those genres.
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In the second part, the poet and spoken word artist Saul Williams provided caustic, needling lines that underpin the remainder of the show as its perspective shifts from the personal to the social.
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After the gentle piano intro in D minor, the killer guitar lick, and the spoken-word setup for his thinly-fictionalized character Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith Jr.'s "one shot", how does Eminem start?
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"We're making out like crazy, and I remember feeling extra wet," said Njambi Morgan, a spoken word performer and poet, sharing her own "that time" story with a crowd of several dozen listeners.
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Slugga notes the 2 songs have identical hooks, "I'm just tryin' to make my mama proud," as well as the same call-and-response technique in the lyrics and a spoken-word intro.
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And I would have jumped to Debs as an analogy regardless of Sanders's own connection to the socialist pioneer, which includes a short documentary on Debs as well as a spoken-word album.
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Former President Obama won the same award for best spoken word album twice at the Grammys, in 2006 and 2008, for his books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, respectively.
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Watch the 2010 documentary "Louder Than a Bomb," witness inner-city high school spoken-word teams' fervent investment in articulating their lives, and it's hard to care if they've mastered dactyls and spondees.
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"Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux" was a beautifully choreographed ballet, but it was more than a ballet: It was also a spoken-word incantation and a showcase for the musical genius of Rhiannon Giddens.
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In "The Library of Ice" Nancy Campbell, a young poet, embarks on a quest to understand the relationship between ice, which is now melting faster than ever, and the fleeting written and spoken word.
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This Sunday, Morán Morán will be hosting a record release for a new vinyl edition of the performance's soundtrack, featuring Wojnarowicz's haunting spoken-word vocals paired with Neill's dynamic ambient soundscapes and percussive dissonance.
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Read: Andrea Gibson's Latest Spoken Word Poem Will Change the Way You Think About Gender Get it from Amazon for $12.61, Barnes & Noble for $16, or find it at IndieBound or your local library.
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And Amazon's Audible Channels launched with spoken-word recordings from publishers like the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Charlie Rose, McSweeney's, The Onion and other periodicals.
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"If you think you know me from the facets they show these folks to get money, I gotta laugh," says Dungeon Family member Big Rube in a spoken word poem on the title track.
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However, despite recording "I Was a Nuttah," it's far from certain whether or not he'll pursue music—even if it's in a spoken word or nasheed style (without any instruments, bar very basic percussion).
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This ethos of cyborgian spirituality finds its sonic form in a procession of distinct sound environments, consisting of distorted spoken word recordings in conversation with woozily fibrous synth arrangements and concussive bursts of noise.
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The idiosyncratic solo work features Crampton alternating between poetic spoken word—which deals, in part, with an 18th century Bolivian revolutionary hero named Bartolina Sisa—and shredded mixing that jumps between genres and epochs.
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We accepted sweet granola bars and orange juice passed by one of Ms. Eliot's friends, sang along when invited and some even teared up during a poignant spoken-word piece composed by Ms. Eliot.
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Elsewhere on the album are eight tracks written by Deorro—featuring Deorro—along with a spoken-word poem in which an android version of Aoki lays out a 32-part workout routine for listeners.
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Wegner, the director of spoken-word audio production, and Brink, director of product for Audm, as well as the rest of the team, are joining the Times Company as a result of the deal.
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The app is loaded with guided meditations, music clips, and spoken word narrations of varying lengths, all finely tuned to help you relax, get to sleep, or simply go somewhere else in your head.
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And I did not foresee how Charlie would draw on all the elements at his disposal, how he would mix spoken word with sign language and the device like a magician weaving his spell.
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This is more than just a romp, though: Mr. Ramos uses skin and sensuality (as well as video, spoken word and cooking) to dig into questions of gender and the politics of the body.
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Bird calls, backbeats, spoken-word samples, noise overlays, tentative and not-so-tentative guitar melodies: Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit's guitarist, brought them all to his four-hour durational performance (with Alex Rosson on drums).
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The first Waajeed tracks were low-slung instrumental hip-hop at its most blunt-soaked, while Electric Street Orchestra, a more recent project alongside "Mad" Mike Banks, fuses acidic techno with syrupy spoken word.
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The men had prepared musical selections — modern spirituals in a variety of genres, including rap, folk, spoken word and hip-hop — to perform for the visitors, who chose pieces to use for the dance.
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Ultimately, the best thing about Horses is the way Smith uses the combination of spoken word and music to create a feeling; one that drives straight into your heart and flows into your soul.
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"Christopher & 6th" features beautiful vocals over slow, minimal piano, while "June 12th" utilises spoken word (which was put to such fantastic, blistering use on Freetown Sound) exploring the many facets of the black experience.
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Van Dalen's most popular work is arguably the Avenue-A Cut-Out Theatre, an ever-expanding collection of mounted models that double as props for spoken word performances on the history of the East Village.
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Drums Between The Bells (2011) finds Eno creating aural backdrops for the poetry of Rick Holland, an ambitious experiment that suffers from heavy-handed imagery and awkward cadences (which is to say, spoken word poetry).
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Before the Bowie songs, Iggy Pop had revealed an artier side with spoken-word pieces set to music by Philip Glass, who organized and hosted the Tibet House concert, as he has from the start.
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A few minutes later, Moore maneuvered a giant barbecue through the crowd to grill hot dogs while people shared their own stories of police brutality, staged spoken-word performances, sang, and demanded greater police accountability.
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"We've had people parody famous movie quotes and write spoken word poetry, but our users tell us they mostly use it to respond to friends' texts," co-founder Erik Westland said in a press release.
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Also joining Tuesday's musical lineup are Coldplay, British soul singer-songwriter Laura Mvula, African-Norwegian duo Nico and Vinz and BRIT Award-nominated spoken word artist and Sentebale ambassador George Mpanga, aka George the Poet.
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In true Mariah fashion, she'll belt out her vows with a full orchestra backing her up, inspiring Packer to do the same – or at least attempt to, possibly with some Shatner-esque spoken word. 2.
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" On "Beautiful People," Ferg's other grandmother shows up for some spoken-word poetry, in between rhymes from Chuck D and Ferg proclaiming, "Watch what you put in your body, so we can live it long.
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And although the spoken word was naturally the focus, music featured too — with a commemorative concert in the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried, based around two sprawling celebratory odes, one old, one new.
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Over the past year, Schwarz has come to celebrate her beardedness in all its hirsute glory as an opera singer, writer, spoken word artist, burlesquer, and sideshow performer with the Seattle revival troupe Wreckless Freeks.
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Part of Carnegie's 125 Commissions Project, begun in honor of the hall's 125th birthday in 2016, it's a 60-minute piece by the spoken-word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, with music by Daniel Bernard Roumain.
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Like that other charismatic Minnesotan Danez Smith, Nguyen came to poetry through live performance; his fine first book, "This Way to the Sugar," appeared from a press (Write Bloody Publishing) strongly associated with spoken word.
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He wanted to write a book that would make his daughter proud Bao Phi, a spoken-word artist and poet based in Minnesota, didn't write children's books until he had a daughter of his own.
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Opening for Bilal at this show is the Onyx Collective, a federation of young improvisers making low-lit, expansively improvised jazz, often with collaborators from the worlds of hip-hop, R&B and spoken word.
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Some actors won Grammys, too: Don Cheadle picked up best compilation soundtrack for visual media for "Miles Ahead," where he is credited as a compilation producer, and Carol Burnett won the best spoken word album Grammy.
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In the summers, the Young Authors' workshop is an intensive, two-week program for Bay Area high-school students, who team up with professional writers, poets and spoken word artists to create and share innovative work.
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The Range, the one-man electronic-pop act created by 27-year-old musician James Hinton, seeks out a cappella and spoken-word samples from obscure corners of YouTube, then incorporates them into his intricate instrumentals.
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Kanye does have the platform and the money to be able to share his opinions through music, but doesn't that just make him like every other artist who has shared an opinion through the spoken word?
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DS: One prominent recurring element in your shorts is the use of language, especially ones like Wawa, where you juxtapose spoken word with different subtitles, and Venite et Loquamur, which is about a spoken Latin retreat.
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It's a video of mysterious origins, featuring something your comfortably artsy, overtly sexual aunt would perhaps try out at a get-together: doing some cringe-inducing spoken word poetry while her partner plays the upright bass.
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Like Daughtry, she zeroed in right away on her partner's major flaw: a lack of authentic feels: "I don't believe you," she lovingly snapped as he aped the lyrics in a spoken-word confessional of sorts.
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Since bursting on to the music scene in 2011, Lamar has been applauded for his deep lyricism, live performances and his ability to mix African sounds with poetry, the spoken word, hip-hop, jazz and funk.
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The now-viral hashtag #ChurchToo started trending on Twitter Tuesday, after writer Hannah Paasch and spoken word poet Emily Joy shared their stories and invited others to also speak out about sexual assault in religious communities.
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Mounted on the wall is a giant purple neon ear called 'The Listener,' a device that silently listen to every spoken word "not judging or interrupting—just listening and never telling a soul," write the artists.
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While being interviewed this past Tuesday on British spoken word artist Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast, the veteran DJ-producer got to talking about the art world's commodification of graffiti, a still much-maligned art form.
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She delivered a spoken word bit on a 2007 Prurient 7-inch called "Worm in the Apple"—billed then as "Miss Chardiet"—and soon took to making her own attempts at the music she was devouring.
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Ntozake Shange, a spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," died on Saturday in Bowie, Md. She was 70.
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An ace beatboxer known for his role in the a cappella Broadway musical "In Transit," Mr. Snow showcases his percussive talents but mostly narrates the action through a combination of rhymed spoken word and straightforward prose.
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Cucina Povera: I initially got involved with the scene through DJing at Subcity—interweaving vinyl records with spoken word and weird field recordings—and subsequently through Green Door's projects aimed at developing young people's musicianship skills.
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Loud, industrial, and painfully abrasive, Rebel Yell's actual music is intense; but she counters it with a coy sense of humour in her videos and the spoken word lyrics that occasionally pop up in her songs.
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The reason opera is such a powerful art form is that it is the combination of all the arts: the spoken word, song, music, the visual arts, sculpture, painting, poetry, dance, architecture and now film, too.
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The Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus have an extremely "listenable" sound, in that they have been expertly tuned to deliver audio that will appeal to all, regardless of whether you're listening to classics, spoken word, or dubstep.
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Danes say that Folkemodet disconnects the media filter between people in power and the rest of the populace, shifting the political debate from "likes" on social media to the spoken word and face-to-face encounters.
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She's since spent much of the year on a book tour that recently resulted in a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album, an award her husband won in 2006 and 2008 for his own audiobooks.
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She's since spent much of the year on a book tour that recently resulted in a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album, an award her husband won in 2006 and 2008 for his own audiobooks.
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The suite's centerpiece is "Cycles," which features elegant chamber writing and a wind-borne flute solo — all of which sets up a stark contrast with a searing spoken-word poem delivered by the actor Jeremie Harris.
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As part of 2016's Autism Acceptance Month, Apple released an uplifting video called Dillan's Voice, in which a nonverbal teenager delivers a speech at his graduation, his text turning swiftly to spoken word through his iPad.
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This TCL mini-TV ($553) is made for the kitchen, and it has Alexa voice commands built into it for the best of both worlds: Spoken-word answers, big-screen videos, and text instructions for your recipes.
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This TCL mini-TV ($500) is made for the kitchen, and it has Alexa voice commands built into it for the best of both worlds: Spoken-word answers, big-screen videos, and text instructions for your recipes.
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It's a mixture of people who were born and raised on Standing Rock, who are visual artists or spoken word artists, or just regular members of the community with a real interest in messaging and the movement.
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Enlisting Queens rapper Dai Burger for hard hitting club number "GTBO," and performance artist Keijuan Thomas for a poignant spoken-word interlude, the EP illustrates the struggle for proper representation and the proud ownership of one's identity.
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The Sound of Jazz to Come shaped The Shape of Punk to Come — Refused's 1999 album even borrowed the Nation of Ulysses' spoken word sections, even if the Swedish group toned down some of NoU's political philosophies.
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The showcase of 13 works will include a dance letter to a playground bully; investigations of global warming and women's portrayal in the media; pieces incorporating poetry and spoken word; and the company's first parent-child dance.
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It's a mixture of people who were born and raised on Standing Rock, who are visual artists or spoken word artists, or just regular members of the community with a real interest in messaging and the movement.
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With its sagging, waterlogged analog synths lines and hushed spoken word, this one's pretty unified in sound and spirit, shot through with the wistful discontent that breathes life into so much of the world's best synth instrumentals.
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Anyway, he's now released another statement on Facebook, this time under the title "THE SLANDER SYSTEM," which makes it sound like some kind of strange political poem you might hear at a student union spoken word event.
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Mr. Diggs, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for his spirited performance as Lafayette and Jefferson in "Hamilton," and Mr. Casal, a spoken-word savant, were both born and bred in the gritty East Bay city.
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This year, a group of artists and activists are staging the second edition of the Art the Arms Fair: a ten-day pop-up exhibition and program of events, including art workshops, spoken word, and musical performances.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Among the thousands of wax cylinders in the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California.
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This is most clear on "Bambu" – a stunning, spoken word deconstruction of modern rap music and society that manages to both empower and enrage; expressing what seems to be the core frustration of the UK's burgeoning scene.
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Written in the wake of that misadventure, "Flesh & Bone" shines its light through a fog of bewilderment and outrage — moving from Mingus-esque miniature arrangements to open-air improvisations to the occasional splash of spoken-word poetry.
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"White Noise," is, oddly, most convincing at its most abstract, when you can sit back and go with the sullied flow of spoken word — all those brand names, all those possessions, all that stuff — and sensory onslaught.
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"Excursions" revolves around an incantatory spoken-word poem by Kevin Coval, assailing notions of racial purity: "The myth of originality leads to fascism," he declares, over a forward-tripping bass line and an unsettled murmur of horns.
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That show, with the ever-relevant title "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope," used gospel, calypso, spoken-word, rock, jazz, soul and even rudimentary hip-hop music to discuss everything from slumlords to feminism to numbers rackets.
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Although the album is punctuated by spoken-word interludes — bits of poetry, self-help, comedy and tribute — it is designed to flow as a whole, gradually infusing a room like incense or the smells of home cooking.
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Performers included seminal performer and party-thrower Allee Willis, performance artist Penny Arcade, "primordial Detroiter," poet, and essayist Marsha Music, and jazz poet, John Sinclair, who performed his spoken word accompanied by legendary Detroit bluesman Jeff Grand.
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A senior at Manhattan's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Sundara is a vocal major, as well as a poet and spoken word artist, and she's been dancing practically since she could stand up.
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Solange: A Seat at the Table (Saint/Columbia) On her first release in four years and her first full-length album in eight, Solange Knowles strings a set of hushed neosoul exercises around nine spoken-word interludes.
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Addressing the terror attack carried out by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing anti-fascist protester Heather Heyer, as she demonstrated to protect the city from neo-Nazis, Ahmed raised the subject of his spoken word poem, "Sour Times," saying: "Sour Times" is a mainstay in the live set performed by Swet Shop Boys, the rap trio of which Ahmed is part, as Riz MC. It's a spoken word piece that deftly explores what drives young men to extremism, and shows him as one of the most thoughtful celebrity voices around today.
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Organizers on Iowa campuses are reserving rooms to turn into phone bank centers, distributing campaign-provided toe warmers to the foot soldiers and playing Mr. Sanders's spoken-word version of "This Land Is Your Land" to motivate them.
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As far as the spoken word segments, I certainly will not be telling you the news from Lake Wobegon, because I think Garrison Keillor is one of the greatest storytellers who has ever lived and … I am not.
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With its 60+ stages of globe-spanning entertainment, assemblage of spoken word, drama, and strange men on stilts, and unwritten laws of camping hierachy, it practically pops up each June as Britain's temporary yet premier city of culture.
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Kimball told me that, on top of a traditional game with the public possibly in the cards, that in June they'll be teaming up with popular spoken word series The Moth for a workshop based around oral history.
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Case — a British nurse, spoken-word artist and writer whose poem "Nursing the Nation" went viral several years ago — explains how hospitals assess critically ill patients with the ABCDE technique, checking their airway, breathing, circulation, disability and exposure.
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Each album in the continuing "Coin Coin" suite has a different sonic identity, but they are typically characterized by a mix of spoken word (often from the perspective of Roberts's relatives), free jazz and hauntingly beautiful, repetitious melodies.
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Mr. Budbill also collaborated with the jazz composer and bass player William Parker on recordings combining music and the spoken word, and wrote the libretto for "A Fleeting Animal: An Opera From Judevine," with music by Erik Nielsen.
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On a recent Sunday, the spoken-word poets Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye sat on couches in their dressing room at the Bell House, a Brooklyn concert venue, and composed a set list for their sold-out show.
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Announcing itself with an ensemble of marching band drums, the track develops in familiar Amobi via an assemblage of chaotic sound effects—glass shards, an ambulance's siren, an alarm—alongside rhythmic synth samples and a spoken word vocal.
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It had a bit of a "Killer Queen" spoken-word cadence at the beginning, but a few lines in, Trent sprayed us with the Moët & Chandon he'd been keeping inside his pretty cabinet, letting all the sparks fly.
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A few years after her death in 2008, a researcher at the LHA discovered a cassette with a spoken-word poetry performance by Allen in 1980, which had taken place at the archive's original Upper East Side location.
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Not to mention his sophomore solo album, Double Up, was due out in June of 1999 (he vowed to only promote this album via spoken word engagements.) This was perhaps the weirdest month for any rapper in history.
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And apart from a few spoken-word awards, no one would expect the highest honors in music to go to a writer — we won't be seeing Zadie Smith or Mary Gaitskill in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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After high school, Mr. Diggs, a track star and budding hip-hop artist, left for Brown University, while Mr. Casal, a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, toured as a spoken-word performer before joining a theater company.
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Chin is perhaps best known for being a spoken word poet; she was a popular part of Def Poetry Jam (as was Bassey Ikpi, whose memoir I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying also came out this year).
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It opens with a spoken-word poem (by Reyna Biddy), and several songs begin with snippets of conversation from some of Kehlani's intimates — friends and also her grandmother — talking about relationships and the vagaries of love and trust.
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" One place that is happening is on Weird Erotic Tensions, or WET, a Soundcloud platform that was created in 2018 by Alexandra Zakharenko and features "sensual podcasts, spoken word, poetry, ASMR, field recordings, and explorations of sonic sexuality.
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It's Me, Chelsea, Handler revealed she was forced to take sexual harassment training after she grabbed a Black woman's butt while the crew was filming a spoken word night for minority students at the University of Southern California.
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Like with many Estonian artists I speak to he's building an alternate reality to inhabit, with this montage of sounds ending with a spoken-word piece from the artist himself, reciting a folk horror tale punctuated with screams.
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The footage of that is very good for a few minutes before it becomes impossibly great as Johanna interprets Patti's final spoken-word poem like her lungs are amok, and Klara yodels repeatedly over the top of her.
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Actor and rapper Riz Ahmed performed a powerful spoken word rendition of his song "Sour Times" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday in response to the deadly White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
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These films featured complex characters that found love in intimately familiar, black places: Brown Sugar within the world of hip-hop; Love Jones in Chicago's 90s spoken word scene; The Inkwell in Martha's Vineyard's historically black Oaks Bluff community.
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" He also dug into Kavanaugh's defense, noting that the female friends the judge listed off while trying to paint a more temperate picture of himself wasn't testimony so much as a "plaintive, spoken-word cover of 'Mambo No. 5.
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The project brought together an international crew of newer singers and musicians including Anané, Josh Milan of house duo Blaze, South African singer Bucie, guitarist José Luis of Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles, and spoken-word poet Ursula Rucker.
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She tied for first place in the 2015 Selma Essay Contest for her spoken word poem, serves as the student body president at Morris Hills High School, oh, and she recently got accepted to all eight Ivy League colleges.
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SoundCloud is often billed as the "YouTube for audio" because of its huge trove of user-generated music and spoken-word tracks, uploaded by some 7 million creators and now listened to by some 22007 million monthly users globally.
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Up to the challenge, she showed her technical skill during a short stint on "The Voice," and explored her artistry on her 2019 debut, "Seasons," an effort that balanced maximalist, trap-adjacent R&B with introspective spoken-word interludes.
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Keep in mind that most students are probably not accustomed to listening to long chunks of spoken word audio without any visual aids, and it may initially be challenging to capture their attention as easily as a video might.
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They could even be unaccompanied incantation, like the breathtaking flow of her spoken-word B-side "Babelfield," which still feels as riveting as it did when I played it as a late-night college radio D.J. in the '80s.
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Though she has called herself a shy person who has had to learn in adult life to use the spoken word, her talk seemed, on this occasion as on others, effortlessly eloquent, moving between wit, poetry, analysis and metaphor.
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The anti-Trump song's video features spoken-word artist Benjamin Clementine standing in front of a backdrop of projected images, including shots of the Ku Klux Klan and rainbows, and it's already racked up more than 193 million views.
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As adults, their devotion to language remains strong, but they drastically diverge from each other: Daphne is committed to the rigidity of Standard English, while Laurel is impassioned by the ever-changing nature of the written and spoken word.
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For instance, "Helemaal naar huis" uses black metal a la Czral as its linguistic building block, includes an excellent saxophone passage, poetic spoken word, and tells a story of anxiety with the rather dutch flavor of mentioning stolen bikes.
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Poet mentors and doctors have been conducting workshops in poor communities, where they educate high-risk youth about the epidemic and provide a platform for them to create spoken-word poems to express how diabetes and obesity affect them.
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If previous VECTOR performances are any indication, viewers can probably expect a series of religious-like rituals, edgy and mystical spoken word pieces, and a whole bunch of iridescent cellophane, dismembered mannequins, and cryptic phrases written in mailbox lettering stickers.
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The singer set the internet ablaze on Saturday night with the debut of her new visual album Lemonade, an hour-long hybrid of music, visuals and spoken word, which debuted on HBO, immediately before she dropped the new album on Tidal.
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Acclaimed spoken-word artist George the Poet, who created a specially commissioned poem for the royal wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, claimed he was strip-searched by police for no reason after a London gig.
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And to those who claim that Insatiable's a Ryan Murphy-esque campy satire: According to NPR, it's just bad satire: Insatiable is satire in the same way someone who screams profanities out a car window is a spoken-word poet.
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The music video for "Shades Of Blue," the latest single from the singer and cellist following her 2016 album Church, takes a freeform approach to storytelling, weaving in the song with intense visuals, pauses for ambient noise, and spoken word.
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A star of Jackson's caliber, magnitude, and reach tackling subjects like these — via a mix of funk, pop, R&B, trip-hop, and spoken word interludes that, 20 years later, still feels like something all its own — was A Big Deal.
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I first caught wind of the actor and playwright Cyrus Aaron during New York Fashion Week, when he opened up Pyer Moss's stellar spring/summer 2017 show with an impassioned spoken word performance ruminating on race and capitalism in America.
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The video is from the 2014 Brave New Voices program put on by Youth Speaks, a 20-year-old organization in San Francisco that promotes literacy via spoken word performances, education and festivals that include poetry slams and other events.
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David Hanson, the CEO of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, has been part of a team that invented Sophia, a life-like robot modeled on Audrey Hepburn and his wife that has 62 facial expressions and can react to spoken word.
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So Violaine Huisman faced no small task in organizing "Birds: A Festival Inspired by Aristophanes," the Onassis Cultural Center's citywide festival featuring theater, visual art, music, museum and spoken word events that began on Sunday and runs through July 8.
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William Shatner: Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album (Cleopatra, 2018) Among the handful of spoken-word albums Shatner has intermittently released to augment his acting career, this one especially suits him: his jolly cadences are perfect for the camp of Christmas songs.
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" More often that not, though, Morrison himself is the poet, delivering spoken-word recitations on "On Hyndford Street" or lamenting fans and journalists' desire for him to give insight into the meaning of his lyrics on "Why Must I Always Explain?
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Why the Hotelier insisted on premiering the album at night They had yet to hear the one-minute introduction of spoken word, which was disliked by 33 percent of the original members of Hotelier, according to an astoundingly thorough Stereogum profile.
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Between Labor Day and Election Day, the spoken-word artist Sheldon Scott is producing a fictitious political campaign, Sheldon for D.C., transforming the gallery into an active campaign office to promote his bid for D.C.'s first minister of culture.
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"Opera Philadelphia has been an incredible partner, and 'We Shall Not Be Moved,' with its fusion of spoken word and hip-hop beats, will be an exciting next collaboration," Mikki Shepard, the Apollo Theater's executive producer, said in a statement.
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On standout "Extreme Love," a churning spoken word piece that features multimedia artist Sutela, Herndon's niece Lily Anna recites a poem about decentralized intelligence (a subfield of AI research in which collaborative solutions are reached through distributed intelligence—basically, socialist technology).
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Later this month, the company will bring "Patti Smith: Words and Music at the Minetta Lane," a concert and spoken-word performance from the author and musician Patti Smith, to the theater for a three-night run, Sept. 22-24.
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From documentaries to spoken-word performances, from urban revitalization actions to conventional gallery shows, they serve diverse ends that include raising political awareness, assuaging grief, anticipating long-term educational needs, and encouraging the resumption, as much as possible, of everyday life.
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She was given a standing ovation before she began her lecture this evening and another when she finished, and in between she spoke metaphorically, and at times more directly, about the power she finds in the written and spoken word.
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In soul-baring spoken word and song, the consummate monologuist David Cale traces the scars of his deeply dysfunctional upbringing in Luton, England — portraying and confronting his own family members along the way — and shares his incredible true story of survival.
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This third installment of the series Silent Voices incorporates the choristers' own spoken-word texts as well as music commissioned from prominent composers like Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Toshi Reagon and the Pulitzer Prize winners Caroline Shaw and David Lang.
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It's packed with curated music and spoken word tracks to help you take life a little more easily, as well as guided meditations of various durations so you can pick them out based on how much time you can spare.
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Doritos, which released its teaser last week with a spoken-word rendition of "Old Town Road," has racked up nearly 4 million views on YouTube, while a teaser for Cheetos' spot with MC Hammer from last week has nearly 3 million.
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Among the rest of this year's 84 categories, Michelle Obama is up for best spoken word album for "Becoming" — she will compete against the Beastie Boys and John Waters — and "Homecoming," Beyoncé's Coachella concert movie, is up for best music film.
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Primarily a writer of poetry and art criticism, her language also spills off the page and into immersive audiovisual environments, film and spoken-word performances that often dwell on the environment, issues of identity and the nature of deep time.
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The Volksbühne will present a new adaptation of the "Iphigenia" myth, staged in Arabic, by the playwright Mohammad al-Attar and the director Omar Abusaada, and then will stage "Let Them Eat Chaos," by the British spoken-word artist Kate Tempest.
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Pros: Excellent sound quality with plenty of bass and a wide soundstage, complements any musical genre or spoken word track, very effective noise cancellation with Adaptive Sound, excellent battery life with 24-hour use possible from the buds and case.
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"I've always been passionate about the transformative power of the spoken word, and I'm delighted to be able to offer this breadth of famous voices and culturally resonant genres with unlimited access, ad-free and free of charge," said Katz.
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The opening pages are a tip of the baseball cap to the poets Langston Hughes and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, as well as to James Brown — innovators of spoken word and funk music, and thus contributors to the roots of hip-hop.
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Somehow, it manages to go coherently from flamenco-singing in opener "Martinete", to twenty minutes of experimental black metal that include trombone, guest vocals of various styles, flamenco themes on acoustic guitar, and samples of spoken word written for the occasion.
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American no wave icons Lydia Lunch and Weasel Walter performed their spoken word collaboration "Brutal Measures," the former's venomous, striking poetry touching on working class alienation and the existential pressure of human existence, punctuated by the latter's furious, scattered drumming.
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