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Young poets find performance home at the Natal Museum |
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Written by Peter Croeser
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Music may be the food of love, but poetry
is one of the most popular forms of group communication amongst the youth
today. Pietermaritzburg's township
poetry group KOSS (Knowledge of Self Society) has been holding monthly sessions
at the Natal Museum for the past two years.
Recently more than 100 local poets got
together at the Natal
Museum on Saturday March
17 when KOSS organised a session to celebrate the forthcoming Human Rights Day
(on March 21).
The poetry at these sessions ranges in
style from the more familiar formal presentation - the kind of classic recitation
poetry we used to love (or hate) in the classroom - to performance art
combining poetry with dramatic presentation and even music (such as the performances
of New York's Laurie Anderson). Also very popular is street-style hip-hop
poetry and fast off-the-cuff rap poetry. In both, pace, rhythm and word flow
are used with great skill. A feature of the Museum sessions are the verbal
duels of the rappers, either battling it out with microphones, or in the open,
surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters of either rapper.
The sessions inside the Museum usually end
after the show with an impromptu battle of rappers on the pavement outside the
Museum. The photograph above show some of the rappers duelling it out outside
the Museum after the Human Rights Day session.
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