Dub poetry
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Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of Jamaican origin, which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s, as well as in London, England, and Toronto, Canada, cities which have
Linton Kwesi Johnson performing in 2008
Benjamin Zephaniah
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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. Over his lifetime, he was awarded 20 honorary doctorates in recognition o
Dub poetry
…1978. Oku Onuora's Reflection In Red in 1979 was the first Jamaican recording of a dub poem, followed by Lillian Allen's Revolutionary Tea Party and Benjamin Zephaniah's Rasta, both produced in 1983, and many others from the early 1980s onwards such as Anti Social Workers 'Positive Style' produced by leading dub…
Zephaniah in 2018
Collecting the Hancock at Cambridge Folk Festival 2008, with Martin Carthy looking on