Avant-Garde All the Time

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Avant-Garde All the Time episodes

January 06, 2009 Punk Versions of Monkey Chants
And other ethnopoetic marvels, including speaking in tongues, throat singers, and sound poetry.
14 min
October 21, 2008 Protest Poetry With a Beat
Hear Allen Ginsberg's hilarious "CIA Dope Calypso" and peak performances by Ezra Pound, Amiri Baraka and Abbie Hoffman.
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17 min
August 01, 2008 Schwitters Happens
You really should listen to the numbers 1 through 100 . . . especially 79.
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18 min
May 27, 2008 Best Decade Ever?
Tellus's trove of '80s recordings, from ethnopoetics to Paul Bowles.
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14 min
February 18, 2008 The First "Three-dimensional" Magazine?
Aspen featured Warhol, the Velvets, and John Lennon twiddling the radio dial.
16 min
January 18, 2008 The World of Outsiders
Kenneth Goldsmith shares some insane and profane sounds that lie between Avant-Garde and Outsider Art, including recordings by Jim Roche, Robin Kahn, and Sean Landers.
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16 min
December 05, 2007 What did Patti Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Meredith Monk Have in Common?
The John Giorno Poetry Systems
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18 min

About Avant-Garde All the Time

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Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete and sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art, and all things avant-garde.