Bath house

Last Wednesdays I opportunity to attend the bath house event with Douglas Kearney and Tisa Bryant.  They spoke on the connectionetween text and oral. This was an amazing display of what text and oral can do. Douglas displays a fun energetic performance brimg his words alive over song and lyric. Tisa uses images and the film to bring her texts to life. She also is talking about the talking book and tactile experience.  It is a root to a  analytical thinking on African American lit.  Douglas spoke on contradiction and power. Hiding in plain sight, double language.  Soul music as a contradiction. That is taking the lyric and text and putting the vocal to change the meaning. I found it interesting that Douglas finds it upsetting when people only get his work when he reads the work. This is why it is important for this text to merge with the oral