Bart Plantenga is a writer who has been called "the world's expert on

yodeling Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word ''yodel'' is derived from the ...

and the "

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of not just the yodeling world but yodeling worldwide."Review of Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica
by Barry X. Miller, Library Journal, Feb 01, 2013. He is also a

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station

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known for his radio show on Radio Patapoe, "Wreck this Mess." Plantenga has written several books about yodeling including ''Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World,'' released in 2004 by

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, and ''Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica'', released in 2013 by the

University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and po ...

. He has also released the album ''The Rough Guide to Yodel'' and wrote the entry on yodeling in ''Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia''."Book puts Wisconsin on the yodeling map" by George Hesselberg,

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, 03/19/2013. Along with Ron Kolm, Mike Golden, and

Peter Lamborn Wilson Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 23, 2022) was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. During the 1970s, Wils ...

, he was a co-founder of the Unbearables, a literary group in New York City, which held an annual event reading erotic poetry aloud on the

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, and stormed the offices of

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"to protest the quality of the magazine’s poetry." Plantenga maintains two YouTube channels, ''Yodel in HiFi Top 50+'', and a channel for his radio show, ''Wreck Dub Wire Yodel'', and has written for

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. His novel Beer Mystic has been called an "experiential experiment" and a "'global pub crawl' across various Web sites" and is excerpted in the critical anthology ''Up Is Up, But So Is Down New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992''. Plantenga is a native of

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. He spent a year at the

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, as a student in the early 1970s before transferring to the

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for his degree. He lives in Amsterdam with his partner Nina Ascoly and their daughter Paloma.

Selected works

* * * * Hosted on 40 websites. * * NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor (2012) (ebook) * Paris Scratch (2012) (ebook) *

References

External links

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Flyer for Yodel-ay-ee-oooo : the secret history of yodeling around the world, 2004 lecture by Bart Plantenga
{{DEFAULTSORT:Plantenga, Bart Living people American male writers Writers from New York City Mass media people from Amsterdam American radio DJs DJs from Amsterdam Year of birth missing (living people)