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BBC Documentaries: Season 2015

2015x236 Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: The Story of Performance Poetry
TV-PG

  • 2015-10-11T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Is poetry the new rock 'n' roll - or is rock 'n' roll the new poetry? This documentary explores how the edges between performance poetry and popular music have become blurred - a radical cross-pollination that began 50 years ago when Allen Ginsberg stormed the stage of the Royal Albert Hall. In the year when the Beats met the Beatles, the event turned a young generation on to verse - a revolution that shows no sign of slowing down in today's urban music and slam poetry scenes.
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