Round 3: Tossup 10

In a poem in this language, a farmer defends his lifestyle to a tourist in a refrain in which he swears to God and his “big right hand.” Dennis Bovell, AKA Blackbeard, collaborated on a poem whose ditch-digging speaker uses this language to lament that his adopted country “is a bitch” and that there’s “no escaping it.” Mervyn Morris edited the selected poems of a writer in this language who presented the children’s TV show Ring Ding and used it for the poem (*) “Colonization in Reverse.” “Miss Lou” was the nickname of that poet and folklorist who used this language, Louise Bennett. The poet of Dread Beat An’ Blood, Linton Kwesi Johnson, uses this example of a “nation language” for spoken word performances over musical beats. (10[1])For 10 points, in what language do dub poets perform accompanied by reggae music? ■END■ (10[1])

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