Bart Plantenga is a writer who has been called "the world's expert on
yodeling[1][2][3] and the "
Alan Lomax of not just the yodeling world but yodeling worldwide."[4] He is also a
pirate radio station
disc jockey known for his radio show on Radio Patapoe, "Wreck this Mess."[5]
Career
Plantenga has written several books about yodeling including Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, released in 2004 by
Routledge,[6][7][8][9] and Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica, released in 2013 by the
University of Wisconsin Press.[4][10]
He has also released the album The Rough Guide to Yodel[11] and wrote the entry on yodeling in Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia.[12][13]
Along with
Ron Kolm, Mike Golden, and
Peter Lamborn Wilson, he was a co-founder of the
Unbearables,[14] a literary group in New York City, which held an annual event reading erotic poetry aloud on the
Brooklyn Bridge, and stormed the offices of
The New Yorker "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,[15] and has written for
The Brooklyn Rail.[16]
His novel Beer Mystic has been called an "experiential experiment" and a "'global pub crawl' across various Web sites"[17] and is excerpted in the critical anthology Up Is Up, But So Is Down New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992.[18]
Plantenga, Bart (2012). Yodel in hi-fi: from kitsch folk to contemporary electronica. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN9780299290542. [20]
^"Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World" by Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone, 2/19/2004, Issue 942, page 75.
^"Global Gymnastics: Review of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World" by Bob Riedel, American Book Review. May/Jun 2004, Vol. 25 Issue 4, page 28.
^"Review of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling around the World" by Ray Olson,
Booklist. 12/15/2003, Vol. 100 Issue 8, page 719.
^"YODEL-AY-EE-OOOO" by Alanna Nash,
Entertainment Weekly, 12/12/2003, issue 741, page 87.
^Up Is Up, But So Is Down New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, edited by Brandon Stosuy, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles, NYU Press, 2006, page 323.
^"Book review of Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation" by Alexander Laurence, Review of Contemporary Fiction, spring 1996, Vol. 16, issue 1, page 169.