The poetics of hip hop : Elena Knox in dis miss!

Cristyn Davies

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Abstract

Squinting in the dark at the viewfinder of Elena Knox’s digital camera, I capture an image of her moving body centre screen, and then gently rest the camera on my knees. While I ensure that my body remains static for the duration of her performance so as to keep a visual and sound “record” of her live performance, my eyes shift upward so that I too can view the event. Seated in the front row of Women and Theatre’s performance space at New York University, I share the heat of the stage lights with Knox, and we are both perspiring. I am trying to keep still, prioritising recording the live event over the affect of my body’s response to the performance. Surrounded by a largely American audience composed of academics, performers and theatre-makers, Knox temporarily shifts me elsewhere with her vernacular; how strange it is to hear a female Australian voice delivering smooth, fast rhyme to rap music in New York City.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)117-129
Number of pages13
JournalSoutherly
Volume64
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Keywords

  • poetics
  • hip-hop
  • theaters

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