1. “WE DON’T WRITE JUST TO WRITE; WE WRITE TO BE FREE”: A RHETORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPOKEN WORD IN LOS ANGELES Open Access Author: Johnson, Amber Lauren Title: “WE DON’T WRITE JUST TO WRITE; WE WRITE TO BE FREE”: A RHETORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPOKEN WORD IN LOS ANGELES Graduate Program: Communication Arts and Sciences Keywords: rhetoricpoetryperformancecounterpubliccollective identityethnographyspoken word File: Download Dissertation_Amber_L_Johnson.pdf Committee Members: Ronald L Jackson Ii, Committee Chair/Co-ChairRosa A Eberly, Committee MemberIan E Baptiste, Committee MemberRaymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Member