Spoken word Spoken word Anarchy Steering Committee was a spoken word and comedy project set to music by unknown, a San Francisco-based graphic designer and photographer. Unknown deployed a rotating cast of stock photography models as "members" of the group and created a backstory for each character. ASC's lyrics were written by fictional San Francisco rapscallion, Franz Hemingbeck . ...more on Wikipedia about "Anarchy Steering Committee"
Athens Boys Choir is a genderqueer spoken word duo based in Athens, Georgia. Formerly comprised of Katz and Rocket, Katz now tours solo. Athens Boys Choir signed with Daemon Records in 2004 and subsequently released the debut album Rhapsody in T. Rose Cuts the Cake, Athens Boys Choir's sophomore album, was released in September 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Athens Boys Choir"
The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival is a Canadian festival which promotes spoken word. Spoken word draws heavily on the oral tradition and encompasses such genres as jazz, dub, hip-hop, folk, slam and storytelling poets or poetry. The festival was founded in 2004 in Calgary, Alberta by local artist Sheri-D Wilson. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calgary international spoken word festival"
No Sex in the Champagne Room was a comedic song released by Chris Rock in his 1999 album, Bigger and Blacker. Intended as a parody of Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), Rock gives one-line tidbits of advice purportedly aimed at a more urban audience. ...more on Wikipedia about "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)"
Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as the very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from. ...more on Wikipedia about "Poetry"
Spoken word is a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. Spoken-word is often done with a musical background, but emphasis is kept on the speaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spoken word"
"The Americans" is a legendary commentary by Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair. Originally written for a regular broadcast on CFRB radio in Toronto on June 5, 1973, it became a media and public phenomenon, replayed several times a day by some United States radio stations, released as a hit audio recording in several forms, credited by Ronald Reagan for giving comfort to the United States when it needed a friend, and widely rediscovered and redisseminated as the United States faced new crises in the 2000s. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Americans (commentary)"
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