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Performances also include special appearances by well-known actors and musicians, as well as occasional performances by Mos Def himself. Co-created by Bruce George , Danny Simmons , Deborah Pointer, Stan Lathan , and Russell Simmons , the show is a spin-off of the popular Def Comedy Jam which began airing on HBO in the 1990s.
This category is to be applied to people who are defined as spoken-word artists. It is not applicable to people who have trivially engaged in spoken word performance at some point in their career, nor is it applicable to people who are "artists", as in highly skilled at oratory or rhetoric.
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of recitation and word play , such as the performer's live intonation and voice inflection.
Music & the Spoken Word is a religious radio and television series. Broadcast weekly from the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, the program primarily features performances of music by Tabernacle Choir (Choir)—often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and the Orchestra at Temple Square. The program also includes spiritual ...
As a producer, Morgan has now produced over 100 events, the largest of which are the annual spoken word concerts When Brothers Speak, When Sisters Speak, and the Toronto International Poetry Slam. When Brothers Speak was established in 1999, and has retained its status as North America’s largest and longest-running showcase for black male ...
The Farm Bureau Live (former The Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) features a wide variety of popular shows and concerts, ranging from Kenny Chesney to Gretchen Wilson to Coldplay to Ozzfest. The Sandler Center , a 1200-seat performing arts theatre, opened in the Virginia Beach Town Center in November 2007.
She was a featured spoken word performer at Lollapalooza in 1994, collaborated with Scanner, John Van Eaton, and Mark Blasquez in Europe, where she opened at festivals for Nick Cave in Belgium and Placebo in the Netherlands. She's also done a number of small tours for her spoken word performances in the U.S. and Europe.
English is the only language spoken by 6,245,517 (86.7%) Virginians, though it is spoken very well by an additional 570,638 (7.9%) for a total of 94.6% of the Commonwealth which speaks English. Spanish has the most speakers of other languages, with 424,381 (5.9%).