Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Barry Alpert. "Post-Modern Oral Poetry: Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and David Antin." In The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch. A special number of Boundary 2, 3, iii:665-81.

An oral (tape-recorded) discussion of the oral and improvisational nature of artistic creation as practiced by these three modern composers. Makes frequent reference to the work of Lord among the Yugoslav singers.
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