Yodel in Hi-Fi explores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music.

Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica

Arts & Photography

Plantenga, Bart

Music

University of Wisconsin Press

Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World

Routledge

A first-ever collection of documents that makes a strong articulate case for radio as a communication of hope and horror -- an "other" medium. This is our Big Grey Book of Radio -- from the avant garde to the prescriptive, radio as subversive instrument, political cudgel, and prank. Includes work by: Leon Trotsky, Tetsuo Kogawa, Ezra Pound, Abbie Hoffman, Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, Weill, Negativland, Marinetti, George Orwell, and many more.

Radiotext (E)

Humor & Entertainment

Radio

Autonomedia

I spent years wandering the haunted streets of NYC & Paris both bulging with ghosts & memory, rich in phenomenological detail, encounters & coincidence & the enticing scent of decay, where the old ignites the new. This sensory wealth tends to overpower the individual residents & in order to survive you eventually end up ignoring it all. One day you wake up & wonder why you’re even living here; you must either put up or shut up; either reinvent your relation to your surroundings or get a divorce.  & rather than do the easy thing—taking snapshots—I decided to record what my 5 senses registered by scribbling down a “snapshot” per day for a year while wandering, engaging in dérives—the walking & writing producing countless notepads with barely legible scribbles.   Thus the Unloaded Camera Snapshots series began as an exercise to document the “snapshots” of everyday life. These eidetic, epigrammatic, not-quite prose poems, not-quite journal entries, served as meta-factual attempts to re-pollinate existence with the fecund, oft-neglected details of the everyday, la vie quotidienne. Think of it this way: Brassai & Doisneau meet Cartiér-Bresson in a Montmartre cafe &, over Pastis, decide to smash their cameras & triumphantly take up pens instead.  Jean Luc Godard once said: “there is just a moment when things cease to be a mere spectacle, a moment when a man is lost and when he shows that he is lost.”   The companion book NY SIN PHONEY IN FACE FLAT MINOR documents New York using the same tactics, and is also available from Sensitive Skin Books (November, 2016).  The Unloaded Camera Snapshots commenced as an exercise to document the “snapshots” of everyday life & was inspired at the time by photographer-friends Foto Sifichi, Bradlay Weiss & Wendy *****. These eidetic, epigrammatic, not-quite prose poems, not-quite journal entries, meta-factual attempts to re-pollinate existence with the fecund, oft-neglected details of the everyday, la vie quotidienne. See it as one’s 3rd eye functioning as an ultra-sensitive macro lens. Think of it this way: Brassai & Doisneau meet Cartiér-Bresson in a Montmartre cafe &, over Pastis, decide to smash their cameras & triumphantly take up pens instead.

Paris Scratch: not quite poems, not quite journal entries, meta-factual snapshots of everyday Paris life

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Sensitive Skin Books

A sinister collection of stories that, through force of language, reveals the limits of power and commerce. His “intelligent rage” addresses Hitler from his dog’s point of view, a sexual liaison with Andy Warhol, the Pope’s wet dreams, and other targets. Plantenga has been called “the William Gibson of the Lower East Side,” “a punk Borges,” and simply “an incredibly talented underground writer.”

Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Patasexual Speculation (New Autonomy Series)

Erotica

List Full

Poetry

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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