Counter/public address: Nuyorican poetries in the slam era
Del-Valle won the individual championship of the National Poetry Slam with her poem “Tongue Tactics” about how people talk. Del-Valle wrote the poem after getting mad at a friend who said some accents make people sound uneducated.
Defending the Beauty of Puerto Rican Accents: Tongue Tactics ...
A digital home for the first 25 years of the poetry slam movement. Audio. Video. Print. Poetry. Poet shares the power of self-expression | Globe SLCC
In her signature poem “tongue tactics,” del Valle reclaims the spoken word not as mere vehicle for the expression of identity, but as foregrounding an identity that finds and founds itself through its public articulation. Because it is “not fully contained” by the city, Noel argues, it can be used “as a strategy deployable outside of its geographic home” (). Del-Valle won the individual championship of the National Poetry Slam with her poem “Tongue Tactics” about how people talk. Del-Valle wrote the poem after getting mad at a friend who said some accents make people sound uneducated.
Abstract The aim of this chapter is to address how discourses of latinidad are produced and performed by means of aesthetic and cultural. A digital home for the first 25 years of the poetry slam movement. Audio. Video. Print. Poetry.
Tongue Tactics-Mayda del Valle - YouTube
Mayda and her tongue tactics bring into conversation “a hybrid identity and experience” that is “Spanish and English, part hip-hop and salsa, part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and. Defending the Beauty of Puerto Rican Accents: Tongue Tactics ...
Clad in a denim miniskirt and black knee-high boots, Del Valle gyrates and gestures, infusing her cadences with Broadway charisma. This is her bully pulpit. "Spanglish slips off my lips," she. Planet Grenada: mayda del valle - "tongue tactics"
Transcript of “Tongue Tactics” Mayda Del Valle The original YouTube video can be found here: I remember somebody once said to me in a conversation, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans sound so uneducated when they speak Spanish, cutting off all those letters. It's so.
Mayda Del Valle | The Performance Poetry Preservation Project
Mayda del Valle performing "Tongue Tactics" at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Mayda del Valle | Baldwin Scholars Mayda and her tongue tactics bring into conversation “a hybrid identity and experience” that is “Spanish and English, part hip-hop and salsa, part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and.Poet shares the power of self-expression - The Globe In her signature poem “tongue tactics,” del Valle reclaims the spoken word not as mere vehicle for the expression of identity, but as foregrounding an identity that finds and founds itself through its public articulation.Mayda Del Valle | The Poetry Foundation Clad in a denim miniskirt and black knee-high boots, Del Valle gyrates and gestures, infusing her cadences with Broadway charisma. This is her bully pulpit. "Spanglish slips off my lips," she.