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Understandable Antipathy: On Hungarian Rap and Slam Poetry (part 2.)
Published Jan 3, 2023
Updated Jan 3, 2023
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Understandable Antipathy: On Hungarian Rap and Slam Poetry (part 2.)
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PART 2.
Whether we like it or not, slam poetry (and in the wider context: performative poetry) at the beginning of the 2010s was a game changer, both on the international and the Hungarian literary scenes. It brought about a shift of paradigm both in how it was communicated and in economic terms. Slam poetry became widely popular, and it seemed poetry was trying to gain back some of its long-lost territory: the undivided attention of the reader, stage performance, and verbal expression, where it originates from. In Hungary it became so powerful and popular that the major annual slam poetry event, called Pilvaker, originally organized by Red Bull, had to be covertly taken over by the government media agency so that they could censor the texts and ensure no open political
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