Performance, Catharsis, and the Spoken Word

Through the examination of a digital recording of spoken word performance, identify relationship(s) between an oral performance of embodied memory and cathartic activity? Does the performance create a culture of knowing capable of promoting spiritual health for the performer(s)? A phenomenological approach viewed through a performance studies lens will aide in examining possible variables and products relating to the performance may include, but not be limited to (lyrics, embodied memory, catharsis, divination, liminality).

Performance, Catharsis, and the Spoken Word

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