ABSTRACT

This performance script created from a critical performance ethnography focuses on how Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam in Baton Rouge, LA, responded to a crisis-filled summer 2016. Summer 2016: political tensions were at a boiling point in a parish flooded with water and lost lives. Fall 2016: over half of all Eclectic Truth slam poems performed by local poets referenced that summer’s successive tragedies. With permission from local poets, I collected ethnographic fieldwork, theatricalized their slam poems, and adapted our co-created interviews to script Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016 for Baton Rouge audiences and beyond.

摘要

这部由批判性表演民族志创作的表演剧本侧重于洛杉矶巴吞鲁日的 Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam 如何应对充满危机的 2016 年夏季。 2016 年夏季：在一个被洪水淹没并失去生命的教区，政治紧张局势处于沸点. 2016 年秋季：当地诗人表演的所有折衷真理大满贯诗中有一半以上提到了那个夏天接连发生的悲剧。在当地诗人的许可下，我收集了民族志田野调查，将他们的大满贯诗戏剧化，并将我们共同创作的采访改编为剧本巴吞鲁日大满贯！：2016 年夏季为巴吞鲁日观众及其他观众的讣告。