The Rap canterbury Tales
by Baba Brinkman
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Copied from my post of June 15, 2013 in the Poetry Group
I was asked if I had this, since Bob's links were dead, I obliged with my Profound Thanks to the original poster Anson (Bob) Roberts for this unusual item. May I also say that this is the only Rap, Hip Hop Music that I have ever liked. ----------------------------------------------- R
The ambition that inspired rapper and MC Baba Brinkman to transpose his performance piece “The Rap Canterbury Tales” to the printed page was his desire to resurrect Chaucer’s brilliant stories from their vellum mausoleum into visible and audible contemporary forms that would once again delight and edify both live listening audiences and readers—a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip-hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, he saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Chaucer’s astonishingly timeless message to a younger generation growing indifferent to the delights of “archaic” literary forms.
* EXPLICIT LYRICS
The raps are presented here—along with Chaucer’s original Middle English,
A hugely successful hit at the Edinburgh Festival, Brinkman has worked with the London and Cambridge school systems, rekindling an interest among both performance-poetry fans and students in the work of “the father of the English language.”
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General Prologue 04:51
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The Knight's Tale Scene 1 06:05
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The Knight's Tale Scene 2 05:35
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The Knight's Tale Scene 3 07:21
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The Miller's Prologue 02:07
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The Miller's Tale 10:14
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Rhyme Renaissance Prologue 02:33
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The Rhyme Renaissance 05:16
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The Pardoner's Prologue 02:19
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The Pardoner's Tale 07:10
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue 01:59
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The Wife of Bath's Tale 09:58
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Retraction 01:18
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Dead Poets 05:20
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