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  2. Dub poetry - Wikipedia

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    Dub poetry has been a vehicle for political and social commentary, [7] with none of the braggadocio often associated with the dancehall. The odd love-song or elegy appears, but dub poetry is predominantly concerned with politics and social justice, commonly voiced through a commentary on current events (thus sharing these elements with dancehall and "conscious" or "roots" reggae music).

  3. Jean "Binta" Breeze - Wikipedia

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    Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [1] [2] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [3] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher.

  4. Oku Onuora - Wikipedia

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    Wong's poetry also won three prizes in the 1976 Jamaica Literary Festival. [1] [4] His profile was further raised when he was allowed out of prison for a poetry reading at the Tom Redcam Library in 1977. Also in 1977, several of his poems were published in Jamaica's national newspapers, including the Daily Gleaner and Jamaica Daily News.

  5. Category:Jamaican dub poets - Wikipedia

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  6. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Linton Kwesi Johnson OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series.

  7. d'bi.young anitafrika - Wikipedia

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    Young's early poetry, including their first dub poem entitled "once dere was a mxn" written in 1988, followed the foundational aesthetic of dub poetry's form, style, and content. [7] In 2013, Young was one of the headline names for the 2013 Human Rights Concert in Harare , Zimbabwe .

  8. Benjamin Zephaniah - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (né Springer; 15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.

  9. Dub - Wikipedia

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    The terms dub, dubs, or dubbing commonly refer to: ... Dub poetry, a form of performance poetry consisting of spoken word over reggae rhythms; Dub, ...