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Thinking about the Blues as poem ...
... as the Scorcese TV show tended to make one do, brought to mind my encounter with Alcheringa and Dennis Tedlock. He had the testimony of Son House transcribed back in the early '70s, and it was an eye operner. Only found pub due to my job at library. Offices of Alcheringa were actually next store to said same library. But, though I am sure I lurked the corridors, I never got into Alcheringa offices. I remember telling a buddy just graduated as an anthropologist that here was a road. Took it myslef a bit anyway with Sunnyland Blues. Should of course mention his sometime cohort and I believe co-Alcheringa editor Jerome Rothenberg who got the actual ball rolling on ethnopoetics for me with his 1968 book Technicians of the Sacred. Found related link and will update with some more. |
ETHNOPOETIC CHAMP
TEDLOCK
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