{"product_id":"performance-bond-paperback","title":"Performance Bond - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWayde Compton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePerformance Bond\u003c\/i\u003e, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith poetry inspired by the insistent cadences of hip-hop and jazz, Compton fuses language, history, and contemporary black politics. He deals with black diaspora at the outer rim of geography and culture, concerned with the legacy of the slave trade, the memory and origins of hip-hop, and the ramifications of urban renewal on North America's inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerformance Bond\u003c\/i\u003e is supplemented with a CD that is a recording of Compton's musical performance of one of the book's sections, \"The Reinventing Wheel,\" featuring the turntable mixing of his reading of the poem, pre-recorded on vinyl, with musical beats, breaks, and samples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"To Poitier\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou, Sidney, dark, nappy, and representative, \u003cbr\u003efluent and fine, \u003cbr\u003ewere all of us at once;\u003cbr\u003ehis, hers, theirs, and mine.\u003cbr\u003eYou were cool and stoical enough\u003cbr\u003enot to throttle Tony Curtis\u003cbr\u003eafter being chained to him for ninety minutes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou colonized England in reverse, teaching\u003cbr\u003ea classroom full of Cockney racists\u003cbr\u003ehow to speak BBC English.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou came to dinner and ate your fill: Veni, vidi, vici\u003cbr\u003e: you came, they saw, and we got to move to the suburbs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayde Compton\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, turntablist, and Black historian born and raised in Vancouver. He is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003e49th Parallel Psalm\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eBluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWayde Compton is a poet, turntablist, and black historian in Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 7.98 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701377896511,"sku":"9781551521640","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/908508497df970c494d35c21f6c6c83b.webp?v=1765020412","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/performance-bond-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}