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	Jean 'Binta' Breeze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean "Binta" Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller.
		She has worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and teacher.
		She suffers from schizophrenia and has written poetry about what she herself calls "madness." In a recent session on the BBC Radio program "The Interview," Breeze gave her perspective on mental illness and advocated increased attention to the needs of schizophrenics who do not have a "talent" like hers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_'Binta'_Breeze (194 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Jean 'Binta' Breeze
		Jean ‘Binta‘ Breeze was born in Jamaica in 1956.
		Poetry and prose by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, born on Jamaica in 1956, stems from the rhythms of reggae.
		Jean ‘Binta‘ Breeze, who co-founded the Jamaican women’s theatre-group Sistren, writes from the point of view of a woman, a Jamaican immigrant and an ordinary person, as in her poem “Moonwise” from the collection “Spring Cleaning” (1992).
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?424 (699 words)

	Jean Binta Breeze
		Jean 'Binta' Breeze was born in Jamaica in 1957.
		Jean Binta Breeze’s work is rich and varied, ranging from childhood memories of Kingston market to the contemporary inner-city streets of London; between subjects as diverse as C. James and popular Caribbean street culture.
		This particular focus is exemplified in what is arguably Breeze’s most famous poem to date ‘Riddym Ravings (the mad woman’s poem)’, a narrative that moves between the concrete (Bellevue) and the abstract as it evokes the ‘madness’ of a homeless fl woman who can hear a radio playing in her head.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth169&state=index=b (651 words)

	JeanBreeze
		Jean Breeze tells her story of the mad woman with all the feeling and emotion that is possible; she presents a beautifully detailed image that haunts like a true historic ghost, like the fading strain of some reggae rhythm.
		So Breeze, as one of these emerging poets has used her poem to communicate the importance and impact of the D.J. The mad woman is a foil of Breeze herself, perhaps as a young woman.
		The connection is that Breeze too was hungry, she longed for the fruits of her labor to become manifest, desired for her poetry to satisfy those who read it, as well as to satisfy her who wrote it.
	www.msu.edu /~licavol2/JeanBreeze.htm (2273 words)

	Jean 'Binta' Breeze
		Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a writer and performer of international standing.
		Breeze was first known as a ‘Dub Poet’ and, like her brother poets and countrymen, the late Michael Smith and Oku Onuora, she studied at the Jamaican School of Drama.
		Jean’s theatrical credits include the script of In and Out the Window and playing the lead in the Edgar White play Moon Dance Night, both for the Black Theatre Cooperative; plus the script of The Healing Touch for the Royal Court Theatre and the choreography of The Balmyard for the Double Edge Theatre Company.
	www.lkjrecords.com /jeanbintabreeze.htm (490 words)

	NESTA – Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Awardee profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jean says: “Jamaica is lucky in that after liberation in 1962 there was a strong fervour to go back and record the past and its traditions to ensure that nothing was lost.
		Jean’s work as a writer and performance poet has always brought her critical success, but at the same time it has limited her growth as an artist.
		Jean moves to London on the invitation of dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and becomes lecturer in theatre studies at Brixton college.
	www.nesta.org.uk /ourawardees/profiles/3376/print.htm (863 words)

	Upstream by Jean 'Binta' Breeze - Poetry Archive
		Breeze achieves this ambition, utilising powerful rhythms and refrains and singing or chanting many of the poems until they become a kind of alternative liturgy, as in her poem 'Planted by the waters' written for Maya Angelou's 70th birthday.
		Breeze prefers to explore social injustice obliquely, using personal stories and historical narratives to concentrate on the psychological dimensions of fl women's experience, exemplified by the deeply moving 'Arrival of Brighteye' which records a life lost between two alternative homes.
		However, Breeze's poems are also full of delight in the world, as in her deliciously sensual description of longing in 'Could it be'.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1121 (439 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - A refreshing and stimulating 'Breeze' - Thursday \| November 27, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		JEAN 'BINTA' Breeze put a refreshing and stimulating cap on a long night of performances at the Dennis Scott Studio Theatre at the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts, Arthur Wint Drive, St Andrew, on Tuesday night.
		In his introduction to Breeze, Tommy Ricketts, president of the society, declared; "We're basically trodding along the highway that these people built." Ricketts was referring to not only Breeze, but also Mutabaruka, who had performed just before her and also other poets such as the late Mikey Smith, and Dennis Scott.
		When Breeze regained her position at the podium, she introduced the audience to the character whom she declared had replaced the mad woman as the centrepiece for her performances.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20031127/ent/ent2.html (624 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - 'Binta' totes her bag of Jamaican space - Sunday \| February 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		IT IS a Sunday afternoon and in a few short hours Jean 'Binta' Breeze will be stepping on to the stage of the Diamond Theatre, where she was a part of the production What A Gwaan, which recently ended its Montego Bay run.
		Jean Breeze is one of the foundation forces behind dub poetry.
		Indeed, Ellis is the one who dubbed her with the name Binta, while the two were at the School of Drama during the late 1970s.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040215/ent/ent3.html (904 words)

	Issue 310 - The NI interview
		When she was 30, Breeze travelled to Britain with Jamaican poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who had already introduced European audiences to the words and rhythms of dub poetry – a fusion of reggae music and the spoken word.
		According to Jean Breeze, clichéd media images and jargon help perpetuate the myth that the Third World is a hopeless case.
		But Breeze shrugs off the criticism, noting that her art is rooted firmly in social and political conflict.
	www.newint.org /issue310/interview.htm (905 words)

	Jean Binta Breeze — ‘I translated Isaiah into Rastaman preaching’\|9Jul05\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jean Binta Breeze began to write poetry in the 1970s and is now widely celebrated as a dub poet, screenwriter and director.
		Jean’s style makes attending a poetry reading more akin to attending the theatre — there is a real sense of performance in her work.
		Jean Binta Breeze is performing at Marxism 2005 on Friday of this week.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=6885 (809 words)

	Jean `Binta' Breeze: Henry Palmer chats with a Jamaican `dub' poet who is intent on telling stories with a political ...
		Jean `Binta' Breeze: Henry Palmer chats with a Jamaican `dub' poet who is intent on telling stories with a political edge
		When she was 30, Breeze travelled to Britain with Jamaican poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who had already introduced European audiences to the words and rhythms of dub poetry - a fusion of reggae music and the spoken word.
		According to Jean Breeze, cliched media images and jargon help perpetuate the myth that the Third World is a hopeless case.
	calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_310/ai_30471509 (924 words)

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		Jean Binta Breeze In 2004 Jean Binta Breeze was awarded a NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) Fellowship to allow her to work on a new collection.
		Jean followed this in July by reading at a special event entitled ‘New Word Order’ in recognition of the contribution of poets and poetry to the anti-war movement in Britain and the wider movement for global justice.
		Jean had also been asked to read at the Globe Theatre in London as part of a fundraising event for Human Rights Watch, but she was forced to pull out at the last moment as the poem she had wanted to read was censored by the organisers.
	niceup.com /news/lkj (2644 words)

	57 Productions
		Jamaican-born Jean “Binta” Breeze is an internationally-renown poet, actress, storyteller, dancer, and theatrical director who writes and performs both in standard English and Jamaican patois.
		Breeze first performed onstage in 1981 with Mutabaruka in Montego Bay and went on to record a number of songs that received airplay on Jamaica’s reggae stations.
		Breeze’s spoken performance to the music of a gospel choir was so powerful and moving that, when it ended, Angelou immediately walked across the stage to embrace her.
	www.57productions.com /article_reader.php?id=8 (3213 words)

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		He was, however, concerned to learn that his sister poet, Jean Binta Breeze, had been told by the organisation that she could not read the poem she had chosen.
		Jean Binta Breeze uses the persona of a Rasta man and the prophetic language of the Old Testament to castigate the state of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinian people...
		In the autumn of 2002, Jean Binta Breeze was presented with a special award for her contribution to literature from the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners.
	www.lkjrecords.com /news.asp (2273 words)

	Peepal Tree Press - Review Display
		However, while Jean 'Binta'Breeze was born in Jamaica, Dorothea Smartt was born and raised in London although she is 'of Barbadian heritage' according to the author’s notes.
		Another skill she shares with Jean 'Binta' Breeze is her ability to compose a brief lyric poem in spare Standard English that is as beautiful as it is economical.
		Dorothea Smartt and Jean 'Binta' Breeze are 'sister poets' with much in common, yet as their work testifies, they have strong individual voices.
	www.peepaltreepress.com /review_display.asp?rev_id=260 (750 words)

	Lewes Live Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jean Binta Breeze, John Agard and Rachel Hayward
		Jean Binta Breeze grew up in rural Jamaica then Kingston, where she first established herself as a writer and performer.
		Deeply influenced by the prevailing reggae culture she became known as a 'dub poet' and was encouraged to come to Britain by Linton Kwesi Johnson.
	www.leweslivelit.co.uk /?event=10054 (510 words)

	Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jean 'Binta' Breeze grew up in rural Jamaica and has become a writer and performer of international standing.
		Her work, which explores a wide range of personal, social and political issues, has tremendous emotional depth.
		Jean brings all of her artistic experience as an actress, dancer, choreographer and theatrical director to bear on her work as a poet.
	www.jinkdesign.com /clients/riverlines/archive_breeze.htm (86 words)

	Jean Burden Poetry Reading
		Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the album LKJ Live in Concert with the Dub Band was released independently in 1985 and was nominated for a Grammy Award soon after.
		The annual poetry readings were established at Cal State L.A. in 1986 to honor Altadenan Jean Burden for her influence as a poet, essayist, anthologist, teacher and editor, and for her long-standing support of poetry on the Cal State L.A. campus.
		Last year’s Virginia E. Smith bequest of over $660,000 expands the Jean Burden Annual Poetry Series and increases access to living poets and their works by students, faculty and staff in the Los Angeles area communities.
	www.calstatela.edu /univ/ppa/newsrel/jeanb2005.htm (1044 words)

	Jean "Binta" Breeze - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Jean "Binta" Breeze has been a performance poet, playwright, actress, dancer and choreographer.
		An album, Tracks, released in 1990 and produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson, combined unaccompanied readings and pieces recorded with accompaniment by the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, led by the Matumbi founding member.
		Breeze attracted her earliest attention as a dub poet shortly after coming to England for the first time in the early '80s.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,407774,00.html (282 words)

	Dub Poetry, Meta Dub
		This form of dub poetry has been concerned with the limitations and constraints of the art form and has tried to widen the thematic scope of dub poetry by referring to the art itself, and by liberating dub poetry from the straightjacket of reggae rhythms.
		Jean Binta Breeze was one of the first dub poets to react against the constraints inherent in an art form almost entirely based on reggae rhythms: "I had to get out of the confines of dub
		Other poets reacted against Breeze's view and argued that dub poetry was primarily about reggae and the revolutionary tradition it embodied.
	marauder.millersville.edu /~resound/*vol3iss2/dubpoetry/dub5_dream.htm (591 words)

	University of Northumbria Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		She is joined by John Raymond Purcell, who is currently teaching saxophone at the Manhattan School of Music and the Rutgers University and has played with such varied artists as Stevie Wonder and Lena Horne.
		Dub-poet, choreographer and theatre director, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, has excited audiences not only in Jamaica and Britain, but in America and Europe.
		Her second collection 'Riddym Ravings' was met with great enthusiasm and recognised as "a qualitative leap in her work"The title poem is, to my mind one of the classics of modern Caribbean poetry".
	online.northumbria.ac.uk /gallery/archive/artist_exhibitions.asp?ArtistID=77 (172 words)

	Caribbean Writer On Line BOOK REVIEW - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jean 'Binta' Breeze, On the Edge of an Island.
		Perhaps best known for her vital performances and popular recordings, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, in the tradition of storyteller Louise Bennett and dub-poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, is an artist of spectacular versatility and resonance.
		Like the daughter-mother in Return who "had travelled all over the world performing, but still kept coming back, still couldn't cut the navel string that held her to the soil," the writer/performer cannot, nor wishes to be separated from the "rootsical" nuances of home—the land, the water, the songs, the proverbs, the words, the "riddym."
	rps.uvi.edu /CaribbeanWriter/volume12/v12p272.html (480 words)

	Black Looks: Jean Binta Breeze - altered states (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An inspirational interview with Jean Binta Breeze, Jamaican British poet and dub poetry performer on BBC World Service "The Interview".
		If there is one book of poetry you read this year - read Jean Binta Breeze - "on the edge of an island" or any of her books.
		I know a couple of your men who grew up with my son who are both schizophrenic - it has been incrediblly hard on their mothers and a lot of the medication just turns them into zombies.
	okrasoup.typepad.com /black_looks/2006/04/interview_with_.html (1488 words)

	Jean "Binta" Breeze: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Jean "Binta" Breeze: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
		Linton Kwesi Johnson produced Breeze's full-length debut, which both couches her socially-conscious dub poetry in the soulful backing music of the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and allows her work to stand alone in a number of unaccompanied readings.
		Be the first to review Jean "Binta" Breeze
	www.music.com /person/jean_breeze/1 (159 words)

	Kilkenny Arts Festival 2005
		Lemn has already wowed audiences at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, when his reading with John Cooper Clarke was one of the highlights of 2000.
		Jean “Binta” Breeze - Poetry with the power and excitement of a full-blown theatrical performance.
		Jean has performed her work throughout the world, touring in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South East Asia and Africa.
	www.kilkennyarts.ie /2005/literature_01.shtml (175 words)

	Artists
		Actress, dancer, choreographer and theatrical director Jean Binta Breeze grew up in rural Jamaica before she moved to in Kingston, where she soon established herself as a writer, performer and recording artist.
		Coming through on the rhythms and reverberations of reggae, Breeze is first known as a “dub poet.” She studied at what was then the Jamaica School of Drama, now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
		Breeze’s list of recordings includes Tracks with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band (LKJ Records, 1991) and Ryddim Ravings (Roir Records, 1987).
	www.calabashfestival.org /pages/artists/artists_page/jean_binta_breeze.html (122 words)

	Dub Poetry, Works Cited
		Carolyn Cooper, "Words unbroken by the beat: the performance poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Michael Smith", Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1993) 68.
		Jean Binta Breeze quoted in Christian Habekost, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993) 45.
		Jean Binta Breeze, "Dubbed Out', Riddym Ravings and Other Poems (London: Race Today Publications, 1988) 29.
	marauder.millersville.edu /~resound/*vol3iss2/dubpoetry/workcited.htm (263 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Jean 'Binta' Breeze & Patience Agbabi with Francesca Beard & Roger Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Edinburgh Festivals - Jean 'Binta' Breeze & Patience Agbabi with Francesca Beard & Roger Robinson
		Jean 'Binta' Breeze & Patience Agbabi with Francesca Beard & Roger Robinson
		Jean 'Binta' Breeze & Patience Agbabi with Francesca Beard & Roger Robinson is not currently showing.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /listings.cfm?sid=12411 (196 words)

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