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Ethnopoetics and Performance Class 2 [Part 3 of 8]

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Title	Ethnopoetics and Performance Class 2 [Part 3 of 8]
Performer(s)	Rothenberg, Jerome
Subject 1	Poetry, Modern.
Subject 2	Indigenous peoples -- Poetry.
Subject 3	Performance poetry.
Abstract	First half of a Jerome Rothenberg class on ethnopoetics and performance, discussing shamanism, performance as ritual, gaining knowledge through experience, meditation, Seneca songs, being prisoners of language, trance and illusionism. Part 4 of a series. (Continued on 81P022B)
Content	Music & poetry Poetry those words that don't have music Poetry & Blues 04:00 Shamans, clowns & tricksters / Tricksters as clown God 08:00 Talks about haunting? & Avant Garde looking back in time. Looking back into dreams & beyond the mythological 1st Shaman prototype & Dreamtime 14:00 Shaman as oldest of Gods Huichol ??? the fire (shaman) special protector of man Fire is the transformer 18:30 The raw & the cooked Levi Strauss Gods & Animals "Raw" Human being cooked or vice vs. 21:00 Performance as ritual entering into Dreamtime/Ancient time / performative time 23:00 Shaman as director (as in play) more than poet in Huichol peyote hunt 25:00 Aristotle tragedy coming out of goat songs "The poet of the myth" told & retold 30:00 Olson "to experience is to know" 33:00 Talks about his "House of Jews" dream 36:00 Mikmitori? of Venezuela and Yage / meditation "first shaman" 45:00 God gone man in exile Gnostic condition Salvation through knowing Meditation? 1st Huhl? SIDE 2 Venezuela continued 1st Huhl story 6:00 Huhl story Healing & curing. 12:00 Return of the lost man? 18:00 Seneca song "A song of quavering? exchanging ribs?" 22:00 Wine? run in class 27:00 Interspecies communication 30:00 Prisoners of the language we speak 32:00 Robert Duncan poem begins with line by Pinder--language of the presidents 39:00 Shaman as inspired madman the sick man who has healed? himself. 46:00 Examples of shaman journeys, initiatory experience Pomo dreamer religion 53:00 Gary Snyder 1st & 2nd Shaman song
Type of Event	lecture
Date Recorded	1981-08-05
File Format	mp3
Performance Length	2:02:43
Rights Information	Copyright release given to Naropa University for the purposes of preservation, marketing and educational use. All other rights reserved to individual performers.
Department	Writing
Original Format	audio cassette
Tape Order	1 of 2
Publisher	Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type	Sound
Language	eng
File Name	81P022A.mp3

Ethnopoetics and Performance Class 2 [Part 3 of 8]

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