Poetry to Music : Gil Scott-Heron's Intermedial Performance Aesthetics

Müller, Timo

Poetry to Music : Gil Scott-Heron's Intermedial Performance Aesthetics

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2019

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Poem Unlimited : New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre / Kerler, David; Müller, Timo (ed.). - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019. - (Buchreihe der Anglia ; 63). - pp. 227-238. - ISBN 978-3-11-059240-5

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Widely regarded as one of the most innovative African American artists of the mid-twentieth century, Gil Scott-Heron has variously been described as a poet, a musician, a performance artist, and a rapper avant la lettre. Rather than describing his art in conventional categories, this essay stresses the productive tensions created by his transgression of genre and media boundaries. Through a contrastive reading of his records Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970) and Reflections (1981), it traces the development of his aesthetics from a poetic toward a musical emphasis but shows that both of these influences are present throughout his work. The aesthetics Scott-Heron developed, the essay argues, is more thoroughly intermedial than previous accounts suggest. Rather than combining various media into an organic whole, his intermedial aesthetics foregrounds the conflictive yet creative process of negotiating their influences.

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MÜLLER, Timo, 2019. Poetry to Music : Gil Scott-Heron's Intermedial Performance Aesthetics. In: KERLER, David, ed., Timo MÜLLER, ed.. Poem Unlimited : New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre. Berlin:De Gruyter, pp. 227-238. ISBN 978-3-11-059240-5. Available under: doi: 10.1515/9783110594874-015

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  title={Poetry to Music : Gil Scott-Heron's Intermedial Performance Aesthetics},
  number={63},
  isbn={978-3-11-059240-5},
  publisher={De Gruyter},
  address={Berlin},
  series={Buchreihe der Anglia},
  booktitle={Poem Unlimited : New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre},
  pages={227--238},
  editor={Kerler, David and Müller, Timo},
  author={Müller, Timo}
}

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