Download pdf The Rap "Canterbury Tales"
Download pdf The Rap "Canterbury Tales"
The Rap "Canterbury Tales".cBaba Brinkman
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Author: Baba Brinkman
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2006
Publisher: Talon Books,Canada
Publication Country: Vancouver, Canada
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780889225480
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Rap Canterbury Tales
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The ambition that inspired rapper and MC Baba Brinkman to transpose his performance piece "The Rap Canterbury Tales" to the printed page was his desire to resurrect Chaucer's brilliant stories from their vellum mausoleum into visible and audible contemporary forms that would once again delight and edify both live listening audiences and readers--a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip-hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, he saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Chaucer's astonishingly timeless message to a younger generation growing indifferent to the delights of "archaic" literary forms. This fusion has produced, with both texts reproduced here on facing pages, one of the most exciting and extraordinarily fertile literary documents of our age. The raps are presented here--along with Chaucer's original Middle English, Brinkman's explanatory introductions, and his brother and stage manager Erik's illustrations--as the best possible way of telling the story of how these stories came about, and what they were meant to do. A hugely successful hit at the Edinburgh Festival, Brinkman has worked with the London and Cambridge school systems, rekindling an interest among both performance-poetry fans and students in the work of "the father of the English language."
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The Rap "Canterbury Tales".cBaba Brinkman
Author: Baba Brinkman
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2006
Publisher: Talon Books,Canada
Publication Country: Vancouver, Canada
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780889225480
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Rap Canterbury Tales
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The ambition that inspired rapper and MC Baba Brinkman to transpose his performance piece "The Rap Canterbury Tales" to the printed page was his desire to resurrect Chaucer's brilliant stories from their vellum mausoleum into visible and audible contemporary forms that would once again delight and edify both live listening audiences and readers--a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip-hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, he saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Chaucer's astonishingly timeless message to a younger generation growing indifferent to the delights of "archaic" literary forms. This fusion has produced, with both texts reproduced here on facing pages, one of the most exciting and extraordinarily fertile literary documents of our age. The raps are presented here--along with Chaucer's original Middle English, Brinkman's explanatory introductions, and his brother and stage manager Erik's illustrations--as the best possible way of telling the story of how these stories came about, and what they were meant to do. A hugely successful hit at the Edinburgh Festival, Brinkman has worked with the London and Cambridge school systems, rekindling an interest among both performance-poetry fans and students in the work of "the father of the English language."
Read online The Rap "Canterbury Tales" Buy The Rap "Canterbury Tales" Download and read The Rap "Canterbury Tales" for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Rap "Canterbury Tales"