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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Concrete Sound Poetry: Record Notes / Cobbing, Bob; Chopin H; Dufrene F; Heidsieck B; Johnson BE; Hanson S; Cobbing B; Novak L; Jandl E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17667-18035
Scope and Contents

The text consists of notes for the record of the same title; the record is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Letter to Henri Chopin Sep 7, 1983] / Cobbing, Bob; Heidsieck B; Wolman G; DeVree P; Dufrene F; Gysin B; Johnson BE; Bodin LG., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19985-20373
Scope and Contents

This letter is a lengthy polemic in which Cobbing argues with Chopin's assertions on contesting the history of sound poetry. He dates and mentions his own performances of sound poetry from his first attempts in 1942. He argues with Chopin on the dating of the works of Heidsieck, Wolman, de Vree, Lockwood, Dufrene, Gysin and Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Poetry for a New Age / Cobbing, Bob; Dufrene F; Johnson BE., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17715-18084
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses theories of Louis Zukofsky involving music in poetry and the use of tape-recorders vs. solely the human voice in performing sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970