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Poetry and the Larger Music
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Title
Poetry
and the
Larger
Music
Performer(s)
Oliver
,
Douglas
Subject 1
Performance
poetry
.
Abstract
1991
Naropa
Summer
Writing
Program
talk/discussion
given
by
Douglas
Oliver
on the
music
of the
performed
poetic
line
.
Discussion
includes
deconstruction
of the
sonic
and
temporal
aspects
of the
sung/performed
line
using
a
recording
of
Bessie
Smith
singing
Backwater
Blues
. Also
addressed
are the
qualities
of
time
,
sound
and
text
in the
creation
,
performance
and
reception
of the
poetic
line
with
writing
about
a
death
as a
jumping-off
point
.
Content
0:00:03
Introduction
by
Anselm
Hollo
.
0:02:00
Douglas
Oliver
begins
with his
intention
for the
talk
,
noting
the
irony
of a
white
,
European
male
giving
a
lecture
during
a
week
on
gender
and
sexuality
. Also
gives
a
disclaimer
about
his
use
of the
word
'
self
',
noting
a
Kierkergaard
statement
regarding
the
persistence
of
lower
forms
in the
higher
aspects
of the
dialectics
.
0:06;15
On his
intention
to
discuss
prosody
,
music
in
language
and the
relationship
of
death
to
construction
of
prosody
and its
disruption
of the
everyday.
. The
task
of
viewing
death
from the
outside
by those
emotionally
involved
with a
particular
death
.
0:09:30
Death
as a
container
of an
event
, a
moment
of
completion
.
0:10:20
The
task
of the
writer/observer
viewing
death
"from the
inside.
"
0:11:20
Time
anomalies
and their
effect
on the
viewer
,
recorder
,
writer
.
0:13:55
"
Swift
,
cruel
events
" and the
temporal
nature
of "the
gaze.
"
0:16:00
On "the
beat
and
flow
" of
sound
in
poetry
.
0:17:00
On the
music
of the
blues
poem
and its
intensification
of
poetic
music--poetic
stress
.
0:19:20
Plays
part
of
recording
of
Bessie
Smith
singing
"
Backwater
Blues
" to
forefront
the
idea
of
poetic
stress
. Then
uses
blackboard
exercise
to
demonstrate
stresses
in the
song/poem
.
0:24:00
Syllable
length
and
effect
on the
musicality
of
verse
and the
difference
between
emphasis
and
stress
.
0:26:00
importance
of
volume
in
performance
of the
poetic
line
.
discussion
follows
regarding
sound
and
vocal
qualities
of
performance
,
including
pitch
,
blue-ing
,
duration
. Then
discussed
the
four
main
sound
qualities
of
stress
.
0:34:35
Ascent
and
descent
of
pitch
in the
performance
of the
line
. The
relationship
between
words
in the
poetic
line
.
0:36:25
Interaction
between
flow
,
stress
and
syntax
in a
line
.
0:38:50
Discussion
with
audience
members
of
pausing
and
effect
on the
perception
and
comprehension
of the
sung
line
.
0:42:45
Plays
recording
of and
deconstructs
with
audience
members
Bessie
Smith's
singing
the
line
, "
Backwater
blues
done
caused
me
to
pack
my
things
and
go.
"
0:47:00
Turns
to
discussion
of the
problematic
endeavor
of
determining
stress
within
a
blues
line
given
the
temporal
and
sonic
qualities
agreed
upon
as
contributing
factors
,
using
tapping
as a
metric
device
.
0:52:10
The
bearing
previous
knowledge
of a
blues
line
hs
on
expectations
of
stress
in a
poetic
line
.
Stress
as an
experience
of
time
. The
distorting
effect
stress
has on
perception
of
time
.
0:55:30
Content
and its
influence
upon
stress
in the
performed
line
.
1:00:10
Closing
of the
poetic
line
and how
stresses
arise
and are
noted
in
song
.
1:02:00
Sound
,
emotion
and
semantic
as
experienced
through
beats
within
a
line
.
1:03:00
Voicing
and its
interplay
through
performed
units
of
sound
.
Subsidiary
effects
on the
line
of
unvoiced
text
.
1:05:40
Textual
rendering
of the
poem
and its
contribution
to
longing
for
temporally
based
events
as
it
arises
through
the
performance
and
reception
of the
performed
text
.
1:10:00
Talk
ends
with
Chris
?
congratulating
Douglas
Oliver
for
having
done
what he
questioned
as
even
being
possible
,
deconstructing
death
through
investigating
temporal
sound
qualities
of the
performed
poetic
line
.
Type of Event
lecture
Engineer's Notes
good -- physically and soundwise none
Date Recorded
1991-07-15
File Format
mp3
Performance Length
1:11:11
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
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
91P093.mp3
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