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Ethnopoetics Resources
Below are some scholarly and creative publications worth consulting for those interested in deepening their knowledge of Ethnopoetics.
Anthologies
Rothenberg, Diane. Symposium of the Whole. First edition, University of California Press, 2016.
Rothenberg, Jerome. Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas. 3 edition, Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc., 2014.
Select Scholarly Books
Bernstein, Charles. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word.
Foley, John Miles. How to Read an Oral Poem. University of Illinois, 2002.
Hymes, Dell. Now I Know Only This Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics.
Jackson, Bruce. Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry From Black Oral Tradition. Routledge, 2004.
Novak, Julia. Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/indianauniv-ebooks/detail.action?docID=819916
Rothenberg, Jerome and Diane RothenbergSymposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Towards an Ethnopoetics.
Somers-Willett, Susan B. A. Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry : Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America. University of Michigan Press, 2009, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/indianauniv/docDetail.action?docID=10406918.
Tedlock, Dennis. The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/6228.
Turin, Mark, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson, eds. Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/186
Select Journals
Oral Tradition. https://journal.oraltradition.org/
XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. Ed Mark Nowak. 1997-2010. Online Archive
Select Scholarly Articles
MacArthur, Marit. Introducing simple open-source tools for performative speech analysis: Gentle and Drift. Clippings. Jacket2. https://jacket2.org/commentary/introducing-simple-open-source-tools-performative-speech-analysis-gentle-and-drift
Sherwood, Kenneth. Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/Aural Poets. Oral Tradition, 21/1 (2006): 119-147 PDF
Tedlock, Dennis. “Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry.” Boundary 2, vol. 3, no. 3, 1975, pp. 707–728. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/302186. Accessed 25 May 2021. (IUP Library logon required)
Tedlock, Dennis. “People Either Go Click: Splicings From a Talk with Dennis Tedlock.” Poetic Briefs Interview Issue (April 1994): 3-13. link
