Alcheringa audio inserts

Nine of the thirteen issues of Alcheringa came with thin plastic record inserts, featuring a wide array of recordings from sermons to horse-songs, poetry readings mingling with ethnographic field recordings. Reissues presents digitized versions of these inserts in high resolution JPG images and 192 kbps MP3 files. Further information can be found on the Alcheringa archive site, or via the Alcheringa PennSound page. Otherwise, the files are available for listening or downloading below.

Volume One, Issue Two, 1971


       

  1. MP3 Jerome Rothenberg, The Tenth Horse-Song of Frank Mitchell (Blue): A Total Translation from Navajo (1969, 1971) (4:34)
  2. MP3 Jerome Rothenberg, The Thirteenth Horse-Song of Frank Mitchell (White): A Total Translation from Navajo (1969, 1971) (5:48)

Volume One, Issue Four, 1972


       

  1. MP3 Reverend W.T. Goodwin, from Easter Sunrise Sermon, 1971, John's Island, S.C., recorded by Peter Gold and Henrietta Yurchenco (3:11)
  2. MP3 Jackson Mac Low, from Stanzas for Iris Lezak, simultaneous performance by David Antin, Spencer Holst, Iris Lezak, Jackson Mac Low, Mordecai Mark Mac Low, Jerome Rothenberg, and Emmett Williams, recorded May 20, 1966 for WRVR, N.Y. (6:25)

Volume One, Issue Five, 1973


       

  1. MP3 Andrew Peynetsa, "Once Long Ago," a performance in the Zuni language, recorded June 17, 1972 (8:32)
  2. MP3 Armand Schwerner, Tablets XVII and XII, from "The Tablets" (1971, 1973) (7:25)

New Series, Volume One, Issue One, 1975


  1. MP3 Jaime de Angulo, The Story of the Gilak Monster and his Sister the Ceremonial Drum, Reproduced by permission of the Pacifica Foundation, Los Angeles, (6:14)
  2. MP3 (continued) Jaime de Angulo, The Story of the Gilak Monster and his Sister the Ceremonial Drum, Reproduced by permission of the Pacifica Foundation, Los Angeles, (6:09)

New Series, Volume One, Issue Two, 1975


  1. MP3 Anne Waldman, "Fast-Speaking Woman", recorded at New Wilderness Event #20, Washington Square Church, New York City, May 19, 1975 (6:00):
  2. MP3 (continued) Anne Waldman, "Fast-Speaking Woman", recorded at New Wilderness Event #20, Washington Square Church, New York City, May 19, 1975 (6:06)

New Series, Volume Two, Issue One, 1976


       

  1. MP3 Son House, Conversion Experience Narrative, recorded by Jeff Titon (5:07)
  2. MP3 Songs of Ritual License from Midwestern Nigeria, Vocalists: Awawo, wife of John; Ogiepo, son of Aimiebo; Asegieme, son of Obemata, recorded by Jean Borgatti (6:20)

New Series, Volume Three, Issue One, 1977


       

  1. MP3 Hotoke-Oroshi (manifesting spirits of the dead), Jizõ Festival, 1953, recording copyright 1976 N.H.K. (Japan), reproduced with permission (6:20):
  2. MP3 Alonzo Gonzales Mó, from The Deer Secret, June 16, 1972, recorded by Allan Burns (6:21)

New Series, Volume Three, Issue Two, 1977


       

  1. MP3 Reverend Sherfey, "I'm Here and I Don't Know Why I'm Here" and two excerpts from "Dressed in the Armor of God," recorded in Falls Church, Virginia, July 9, 1976, and Stanley, Virginia, Summer 1977 (6:29)
  2. MP3 "Debaghaale Arr Dilley aragten," a Somali folktale told by Zahra Abdi Kareem to Abdi Sheik-Abdi, recorded in Albany, New York, June 6, 1977 (3:47):

New Series, Volume Four, Issue One, 1978


       

  1. MP3 Oratory in Three Languages, recorded by Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock (1965-1976) (5:16)
  2. MP3 Three Testimonies, recorded by Jeff Titon and Ken George (1977) (5:51)
June 7, 2011
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