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en-wikipedia-org-3851		Performance poetry - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3888	273	61	The term performance poetry originates from an early press release describing the 1980s performance poet Hedwig Gorski, whose audio recordings achieved success on spoken word radio programs around the world.[2] Her band, East of Eden Band, was described[by whom?] as the most successful at music and poetry collaborations, allowing cassettes of her live radio broadcast recordings to stay in rotation with popular underground music recordings on some radio stations. Unlike Gorski, who with East of Eden Band, began broadcasting live performance poetry on radio[4] and distributing the recordings of these broadcasts in place of publishing in print, Jewell and slam poets were more interested in small live audiences. While Ginsberg sang his Blake songs with a harmonium, the original practitioner of this third and most popular type of performance poetry is Hedwig Gorski, who coined the term performance poetry to describe her work with music.[7] She is sometimes called a neo-beat, but considers herself an American "futurist".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3851.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3851.txt