The Rap Canterbury Tales
English | Publisher: Talonbooks (September 1, 2006) | ISBN-10: 0889225486 | MP3 64Kbps | 107.58 MB
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.
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