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Poster Image (man standing in jacket with hands and pockets and hood over his head).

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L-VIS LIVE!

written and performed by Kevin Coval
based on his book L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
directed by Jess McLeod
part of Victory Gardens’ Fresh Squeezed Series
March 27 – April 14, 2012
Richard Christiansen Theater

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Elvis.
Eminem.
Vanilla Ice.
Al Jolson.

A whiteboy rapper like so many whiteboy rappers, L-Vis loves black art and got famous (mis)using it. Poet Kevin Coval is your guide through L-Vis’ journey from the suburbs to superstardom – with an art form that never was his for the taking. This new multimedia hip-hop solo show explores the exhilarating collision of race and art in American pop culture.

Kevin Coval is a Chicago poet and author and is Co-founder/Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival.

L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Book Trailer:

An interview with Kevin Coval: