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Performance poetry is poetry written to be performed aloud, not just read silently on the page, as part of the meaning. It sits between literature and theatre and takes many forms i.e. slam poetry, spoken word, dub poetry. Reggae fits into that lineage by way of dub poetry, which emerged in Jamaica and Britain in the 1970s and the emergence of artists such as Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mutabaruka

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