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Allen Ginsberg class on aboriginal poetics.

by: Ginsberg, Allen; Whalen, Philip

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1976-07-23 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Topics: New American Poetry, beat movement, incantation, language and culture, preliterate culture, oral literature

Allen Ginsberg discusses "Aboriginal Poetics": the children's songs, migration songs, and funeral songs of the aboriginal population of Australia. He performs chants with aboriginal songsticks, including one written to protest the Vietnam War. The tape concludes with a reading and discussion of Vachel Lindsay's rhythmic poem "The Congo."

Addeddate: 2004-06-08 11:35:27

Boxid: OL100020212

Identifier: naropa_allen_ginsberg_class_on

Numeric_id: 5766

Run time: 0:47:00

Taped by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Type: sound

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Reviewer: Blank - - January 12, 2005
Subject: Great Hum Bom

Class is billed as "2nd session improvised poetics". Highlights include sung pieces with aboriginal song sticks, including a very unique version of Hum Bom.

0: discusses spontaneous poetry and its connection to aborignal singing accompanied by song sticks.
17:10: Allen sings aboriginal children's song in aboriginal language and then translates
21:30: Introduces his own composition "Ayer's Rock"
22:10: Uluru or Ayer's Rock
24:20: Introduces Hum Bom

25:40: Hum Bom: a very unique version of this with many different lyrics and different ryhthms: A great hypnotizing version of this poem.
30: discusses book: Deep Down in the Jungle
30:31: Allen's Signifying monkey
31:40: Vachel Lindsay
34:45: reads General Booth enters Heaven- Lindsay
37:20: Introduces The Congo
39:25: The Congo cuts off around 46:40

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