The Odyssey Tapes

Duration: 30 min
Release date: 1988-02-02
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A study of concert-artist Richard Dyer-Bennet at work on Homer's Odyssey - that is, developing a strategy for performing, in English, and in 1978, with harp in hand, this monumental 24 hour poem, which, in Homer's time and Homer's life, only existed in oral form - a long song, performed in public as entertainment and as tribal history.

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The Odyssey Tapes

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Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow
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