4. (Feb. 1) Orality, Ethnopoetics, Performance, Song, Sound
•"Sound" and "Performance" in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (X) & pdf: note the Encylopedia is also on-line via Penn library. See also "timbre."
•Richard Bauman, ed., Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments : A Communications-Centered Handbook: secs. on Oratory, Oral Poetry, Ethnopoetics, Gesture, Song pdf
•Sound States: Mackey and Moten
•Close Listening: Dennis Tedlock
•Tedlock, The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation (on library reserve):
chapter one (pdf, psswd req.); this chapter may be easier to read via JSTOR, but please be sure to read the "Epilog" in the pdf, starting p. 55, which is not in the original article: "On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative" from The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 84, No. 331: Toward New Perspectives in Folklore. (Jan. - Mar., 1971), pp. 114-133: Penn Access.
•Tedlock, From Voice and Ear to Hand and Eye (Penn access) from The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 103, No. 408. (Apr. - Jun., 1990), pp. 133-156. Stable URL
Charles Olson, "Projective Verse"
Recommended
Tedlock, Spoken Word : Intro, prologue, & chaps. 1, 3, 10, and 16; ch. 7 is assigned for later week.
From Oral Performance to Paper-Text to Cyber-Edition by John Miles Foley
Fred Moten, In the Break: the Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Mackey Penn Sound page and near end "Song of the Andoumboulou")
Amiri Baraka, Blues People
Charles Olson, "Proprioception" (in Collected Prose)
"Wedding of Mustajbey’s Son Bećirbey" as performed by Halil Bajgorić & recorded by Milman Parry and Albert Lord (Serbian epic singing)
Bernstein, "Introjective Verse"
Jed Rasula, "Notes on Genre"
Recommned listening : speech & music. multivoice
Robert Ashley: excerpts from Perfect Lives:: The Bank (Victimless Crime); .The Backyard (T'Be Continued) ,  The Bar (Differences) [excerpt]:
Steve Reich, The Cave and "Come Out": @2 hrs 21 min this Rel Audio Kenny Goldsmith broadcast, and "It's Gonna Rain": first in this RA broadcast
Respondents:
1. Julia Bloch & Adrian Khactu on Moten
2. Eric Baus on Mackey
3. Jana Schmidt on "Projective Verse"

5. (Feb. 8) Sound Theory/Theory of Sound (Phonology)
•Roland Barthes, "Listening" (X), pdf: Respondent: Thomas Patteson
•Reuven Tsur, What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive
•Roman Jakobson, "Quest for the Essence of Language" (X), pdf : Respondent: Matt Hubbell
•George Lakoff sound symbolism notes (X, pdf)
Recommended:
Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh, The Sound Shape of Language
Jakobson, Language in Literature
See bibliography of Close Listening
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We can continue discussion of ethnopoetics from last week, beginning with Thomas's discussion of Brogan.
But first: & heldover: Adam Tabor on ethnopoetics


6. (Feb. 15) Susan Howe ," 'What Is This Crackling of Voices in the Mind' ": Edwards, Stevens, Howe"
We will meet at KWH!
Howe will give a public talk at 6:30 & we will have a light supper with Susan Howe after the talk.
Note also: Feb. 14: Susan Howe reading, 6:30, KWH
•Susan Howe, The Midnight
•Jonathan Edwards, "Personal Narrative" (1794)
[NOTE: Quick running html text of Howe's Stevens selection plus a passage from Dickinson , Whitman, and Crane she requested to include.Will project on Thurs. but you might want to print out]
•Wallace Stevens, "Dutch Graves in Bucks County" (from which the title of the talk is taken)
•&, from The Rock: "The Planet on the Table," "The Rivers of Rivers in Connecticut," & "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"
& "Poetry Is  Destructive Force" (from "Parts of a World")
Note: Recommended edition of Stevens: Library of America; Stevens's poems also available via LION
Recommended
CD Howe did with David Grubbs, Thiefth (available for seminar only here)
Howe, Singularities
Stevens, The Rock and "John Crowe Ransom: Tennessean" (in LOA collection)
Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Edwards, mss at Beinicke (search Jonothan Edwards)
Further reading/listening via Susan Howe EPC page & PennSound page
Esp. recommended: LINEbreak program


7. (Feb. 22)  Sound Theory/Theory of Sound (2)
•Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music
•Walter Benjamin, "On Language as Such and the Language of Man" (1916)
•______"Doctrine of the Similar" (1933)
 :::: pdf of both WB essays; word doc of "Doctrine"
Recommended:
Adorno & Horkheimer, Siren passage from The Dialectic of Englightenment
Luigi Russolo, "The Art of Noises"
Torben Sangild, " The Aesthetics of Noise" (UBU, rec. by Kenneth Goldsmith)
via Greg Steier:
David Toop, Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory
L. Murray Schafer, Soundscape (aka The Tuning of the World)
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces
Information Theory:
Claude E. Shannon (intro Warren Weaver), "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Daniel Changeler, a good summary of the "The Transition Model of Communication"
"Conduit Metaphor" see e.g. Lakoff & Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, 1980, p. 10
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Abraham Moles (1920-1992), see esp. Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (1966)(in Penn library)

Respondents:
Matt Hubbell continuing on Jakobson
Greg Steirer and Sarah Kerman on "Noise"

These sessions are left open to schedule participant presentations (esp.) and to resechedule discussions for which there was  inadequate time. It had been my plan to do some close listenings to Harreyette Mullen, Louis Zukofsky, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, Mina Loy, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Charles Olson, Leslie Scalapino, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, H.D., Woody Guithrie's "talking" pieces, David Antin, and others. Perhaps these suggestions might be taken up in final projects.

from Pitch of Poetry:

11. (April 7) Sound

Respondents: Chris Mustazza and Danny Snelson, who will each post additional material to view before the seminar, They will be adding their own set of readings, this set will be background reading.

Mustazza's List:
Waveforms and optional collaborative exercise
Charles reading "1 to 100"
Filreis on Charles Bernstein's "1 to 100"
Mustazza on using ARLO
Perloff - "To Give a Design": Williams and the Visualization of Poetry
Mustazza - "The William Carlos Williams Band"
Jaap Blonk - "What the President Will Say and Do"
Vachel Lindsay, particularly "The Congo" -
OPTIONAL:
Mustazza - "Sound as an Extension of Form and Content: A Phonotextual Analysis of William Carlos Williams' "To Elsie"
Mashinka

Snelson's List:
----->Readings:
Jonathan Sterne, “The mp3 as cultural artifact” (condensed article form, see also (optional) MP3: The Meaning of a Format here) and “The Preservation Paradox in Digital Audio” (as part of the Sound Souvenirs collection)
Patrick Feaster, “Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio 980-1980” (important! for highlights, see Feaster’s YouTube lecture)
Charles Bernstein, “Making Audio Visible: The Lessons of Visual Language for the Textualization of Soun”
Craig Dworkin, “A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening”
Peter Middleton, “How to Read the Reading of a Written Poem”
----->Listenings:
William Carlos Williams, “The Defective Record” (text)
Tan Lin, “Eleven Minute Painting”
Gregory Laynor, “The Making of Americans”
Cassandra Gillig, “put me in charge of poetry magazine and i will fuck this country up”
Henri Chopin, “Civilisation de papier”
Timothy Leonido, “Callhome Corpus” and “Ingroup-signal (request)”
[Further resources: Sound Poetry Effects Catalog and The St.Claire Prof.Anon Micro-Library]
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my list: further reading on sound ---
Susan Stewart, "Letter on Sound"(from Close Listening)
Reuven Tsur, What Mkes Sound Paterns Expressive (from on-line book sellers)
Andrew Welsh, Roots of the Lyric: available as an ebook via Penn
Stein and Waveforms, Tanya Clement
more Tsur:
•‘Kubla Khan’ – Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive (short excerpt)
•Tsur, Phonetic Cues and Dramatic Function Artistic Recitation of Metered Speech (alt. site for same essay)
•Tsur, Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance (note link to full book below)
Tracie Morris: PennSound: Close Listening, &:
"Chain Gang" , "From Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful, "It All Started" (last of the segmented videos) & her article in boundary 2: American Poetry after 1975
Charles Bernstein: Close Listening intro
Recommmended:
See Sound syllabus
Garrett Steward: Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext (free ebook)
Donald Wessling, Chances of Rhyme (free ebook)
Marjorie Perloff / Craig Dworkin, The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
Singing_Grove-Ency
Reich-Steve_Music-as-Process
Adorno_Music-Informal

note these pdfs in protected file:

Simon Ortiz, Song, Poetry and Language-Expression ane Perception