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Brazil commissions poetry blog, minus the poets March 17, 2011: Forbes' Kenneth Rapoza writes about the Brazilian government's controversial commissioning of a "million dollar" poetry blog. The R$1.3 million ($783,000 USD) isn't going to a poet or literary organization. The recipient is singer Maria Bethânia, who will use the platform to interpret poetry in song through a daily series of videos. There's no [...]
Getting What You Asked For December 22, 2010: What? You didn't ask for a recording of Jean Baudrillard singing his poems with musical accompaniment? Sure you did! That's how the market works. Supply and demand. From Ubu: Unbelievable but true! Baudrillard recites his poetry backed up by an all star band featuring Tom Watson, Mike Kelley, George Hurley, Lynn Johnston, Dave Muller and Amy [...]
Chet Baker album with Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold gets a proper release December 13, 2010: eJazzNews reports that one of the last recordings of Chet Baker's career, Telemark Blue was also his first jazz-and-poetry album. Recorded with the Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold in 1988 three months before Baker's death, the album will finally see a proper international release on Norway's Hot Club Records. Vold himself worked with many jazz [...]
Closed captioning provided by used books December 8, 2010: The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart from Ben Reed on Vimeo. This music video for The Wave Picture's "Sweetheart" is made out of animated, torn up, drawn on and maybe even a few intact secondhand books. "I will write you without poetry," they sing, but no matter-- it's all in the visuals. The text and images go together beautifully, just like [...]
Composer John Adams: “The text generates the musical ideas” December 6, 2010: SFist interviews the Bay Area composer John Adams on the San Francisco Symphony's performance of his oratorio El Niño ten years after its debut with Peter Sellars directing. The present staging, directed by Kevin Newbury, is stripped down and doesn't contain the videos or dancers of a Sellars production, but the Latin American poetry and texts [...]
Don’t ask your professor for feedback unless you’ve got earplugs November 12, 2010: Naropa University has tapped Thurston Moore to lead a writing workshop next summer at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics' Summer Writing Program. "I think (Thurston) will convey his passion for poetry to his students, and will give a sense of the delicate collaboration between words and music in his own work," said Anne Waldman, who [...]
The love song of B. Folds and N. Hornby October 5, 2010: Prizes, readings, publications -- they're all part of the drill for high-flying poetesses these days. But every now and again, a particularly lucky poetess will get this: a love poem by Nick Hornby, set to the music of Ben Folds, performed by an acne-ridden redhead who spins around in his desk chair and screams your name while waving flashcards [...]
Shel Silverstein, recording artist September 27, 2010: Shel Silverstein is best known for his fanciful children's poetry, so perhaps you were unaware of his very, ahem, adult side. Silverstein was Playboy's "cartoon-capturing foreign correspondent" as well as a prolific songwriter and burgeoning novelist, reports the Atlantic: Sticking only to the school-age side of the road means ignoring his [...]
The people’s voice has spoken September 27, 2010: Though the Iranian government no longer broadcasts his songs, Mohammed Reza Shajarian may still be his country's most famous - or infamous - protest singer. NPR reports on Shajarian's peaceful protest poetry, and why he often pulls his lyrics from old Persian poems that shed a historical light on present-day conflicts: As a recent example, [...]
Thou hast thy music, too September 17, 2010: The Guardian has asked its readers to recommend songs inspired by poetry. As it turns out, there's lots of it, and (at least according to writer Paul Macinnes) it's good. Take the Fugs and their reworking of Allen Ginsberg's totemic "Howl." On the one hand a piece of garage-rock r'n'b, on the other a platter of disorienting descant in which [...]