Bart Plantenga is a writer who has been called "the world's expert on yodeling" and the "Alan Lomax 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 pirate radio station disc jockey known for his radio show on Radio Patapoe, "Wreck this Mess."
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,"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. and Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica, released in 2013 by the University of Wisconsin Press."Bart Plantenga. Yodel in Hi-Fi, From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica" by René van Peer, Musicworks, Issue 117.
He has also released the album The Rough Guide to Yodel"Yodeling Is Universal" by Meline Toumani, The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2006. and wrote the entry on yodeling in Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia.Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia edited by Andrew R. Martin, Matthew Mihalka, and Matthew Mihalka, ABC-Clio, 2020, page 945."Book puts Wisconsin on the yodeling map" by George Hesselberg, Wisconsin State Journal, 03/19/2013.
Along with Ron Kolm, Mike Golden, and Peter Lamborn Wilson, he was a co-founder of the Unbearables,"BEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2011. 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, and has written for The Brooklyn Rail.
His novel Beer Mystic has been called an "experiential experiment" and a "'global pub crawl' across various Web sites""A Review of Beer Mystic by Bart Plantenga" by Spencer Dew, Decomposition Magazine, accessed 12/4/2021. and is excerpted in the critical anthology Up Is Up, But So Is Down New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992.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.
Personal life Plantenga is a native of Amsterdam. He spent a year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a student in the early 1970s before transferring to the University of Michigan for his degree. He lives in Amsterdam with his partner Nina Ascoly and their daughter Paloma.
Selected works "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.
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NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor (2012) (ebook) Paris Scratch (2012) (ebook)
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Flyer for Yodel-ay-ee-oooo : the secret history of yodeling around the world, 2004 lecture by Bart Plantenga