spoken word
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As a proto-Broadway musical operatic genre of spoken word and musical numbers, it appeals on all levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
For more than 38 years the World Stage Performance Gallery, in South Los Angeles’ Leimert Park, has presented live music, poetry, spoken word and other forms of cultural expression in its performance gallery.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Barclay's hour-long spoken word performance draws on his upbringing in Huddersfield and his experience of the industrial landscape of northern England, against a soundtrack of live percussion and horn.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Her first spoken word, which comes to her while gazing in awe upon a “disappearing machine,” as she thinks of it, is the French term for “vacuum cleaner.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Anybody with a hooked-up computer can now communicate remotely and instantaneously—through the spoken word or through the written—with a potential audience of millions.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
