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Dub poetry is a popular form of performance poetry that’s accompanied by pre-determined Reggae music and is delivered in front of a crowd. These poems are incredibly effective due to the way in which poets carefully select their accompaniment.
Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of Jamaican origin, [1] which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s, [2] [3] as well as in London, England, and Toronto, Canada, cities which have large populations of Caribbean immigrants. [4]
The dub in dub poetry is akin to the performance you will find from deejays using the B side of a reggae recording, and shouldn’t be confused with dub music, which is its own thing because the special effects make it difficult for the spoken wordsmith to perform on.
Dub poetry includes lyrics and narrative poems on various subjects including protest against racism and police brutality, the celebration of sex, music, and ganja, and Rastafarian religious themes.
Dub Poetry is an extension of the DJ toasting over instrumental dub tracks that developed in Jamaican dancehalls during the 1970s. There are two major differences that separate dub poetry from standard DJ patter: 1) instead of simply keeping the party jumping, dub poetry is socially and politically conscious, often aimed just as much at ...
Dub poetry is a style of poetry that is performed to a sound track of dub music. When performing without music, the performer will deliver the words using the musical rhythms of reggae music and will sometimes burst into song.
Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of West Indian origin which evolved out of Dub music consisting of spoken word over Reggae rhythms in Jamaica in the 1970s.
