KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ A reading by Jan Herman
Analog Audio
Event Type
Spoken WordOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1970.04.06Program Length
24 minDates
1970-04-06 | broadcast| 1970-02-13 | created
Description
In a program that was recorded on Feb. 13, 1970, Jan Herman reads from the 5th issue of his magazine “San Francisco Earthquake.” The title of this particular issue was “VDRSVP.” The reading includes works by Sinclair Beiles, Carl Solomon, Carl Weissner, Annie Rooney, and Jan Herman, chosen at random, and read here as if they were all part of the same piece. Jan Herman was at the time a publisher of avant-garde literature, who in addition to his magazine, also brought to print various pamphlets by Dick Higgins, Liam O'Gallagher, and William S. Burroughs under the Nova Broadcasting imprint. This particular reading serves as a classic example of the sort of cut-up literary style that was championed by such writers as William S. Burroughs, and which was quite popular in the late 1960s and 1970s.Genres
LiteratureSubjects
Literature, ExperimentalCut-ups (Literary form)
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, CharlesHerman, Jan
Beiles, Sinclair
Solomon, Carl
Weissner, Carl
Rooney, Annie