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| | Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot: Dub Poetry: A Primer |
 | | Besides the subtle racism and class warfare that greeted their work, the earliest pioneers of dub poetry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Oku Onoura, Benjamin Zephaniah, Malachi Smith, Mutabaruka, and Mikey Smith, confronted resistance, especially in Jamaica, because it was thought that sense (imagery, metaphor, simile) was sacrificed to sound. |
 | | As Malachi Smith explained in the dub-u-mentary, Dub Poetry: The Life and Work of Malachi Smith, his dub poems usually come from a beat suggested by the cadence of the refrain which is repeated throughout the poem and acts as a mnemonic device in long compositions. |
 | | Thankyou Geoffrey for bringing me back to a wonderful form of poetry, more often eclipsed by what is becoming the banal world of spoken word. |
| geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com /2007/03/dub-poetry-primer-origins-of-dub-poetry.html (809 words) |
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