Ron Welburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Welburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Welburn |
| SIGNATURE | WELBURN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Joe Skerrett and Melus at UMass Amherst
I must begin with Chester County, Pennsylvania (of which the city of West Chester is the county seat), for its coincidental role in my meeting Joe. As an undergraduate in the mid-1960s at Lincoln University in southern Chester County, I chanced to meet an elder referred to simply as “Mr. Skerrett.” He resided with one of the university employees whose house was walking distance from the campus on the narrow street through the tiny settlement we s…
Theorizing Native Studies in the Northeast
Academic programs that focus on the histories, cultures, and contemporary issues of the peoples indigenous to North America, whether they are called American Indian studies, Native American studies, First Nations studies, or, for some as program ideologies evolve, indigenous studies, are not new pursuits. As Native studies continues to develop, administrators, faculties, staff, and students will face questions about theory and methodology and the…
The Demon of the Continent
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determi…
Yellow Wolf Spirit
A Moon Accountability
Ron Welburn teaches American literatures at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His published works include Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures (2001), Council Decisions (1990), and Heartland: Selected Poems (1981)
Medicine River
Journal Article Medicine River. Thomas King. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1990. 261 pages. $18.95. Green Grass, Running Water. Thomas King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 360 pages. $21.95. Get access Medicine River. Thomas King. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1990. 261 pages. $18.95.Green Grass, Running Water. Thomas King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 360 pages. $21.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts …
Skidoo" ("Yes, That's It)
“2300 Skidoo” (“Yes, That’s It”) Ron Welburn (bio) I listened to Herbie Nichols’ music: Then, when the old man said to me “ ” I now had to learn turning over. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn is an enrolled member of the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, a mentor for Wordcraft Circle, and chair of the Five Colleges, Inc., American Indian Studies Committee. He teaches American literatures at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His most recent coll…
Call and Remembrance
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996
A New Time Native Diversity
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996
Inuit Goggles 1957
Inuit Goggles 1957 Ron Welburn (bio) I heard in the Dead Lecturer’s “slits in the metal, for sun”* the resonance of Inuit goggles, my trope of resistance to the transatlantic endgame, impression from my ignorance of the cage with a heart beating, wishing it was somewhere else, when his someone else moved inside me. Snow storm and winter offer us the languages of survivance. The goggles frame reference to my wandering about with the rest of the pe…
A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu
Journal Article A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky. Edited by James Kari and Alan Borass. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, 1991. xxxviii + 485 pages, maps, photos. $16.00 paper. Get access A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky. Edited by James Kari and Alan Borass. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, …
The Braided Rug, Pennyroyal, and the Pathos of Almira Todd
Yellow Wolf Spirit
Wolfsong
Journal Article Wolfsong. Louis Owens. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 256 pages. $12.95. Get access Wolfsong. Louis Owens. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 256 pages. $12.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 1994, Pages 139–141, https://doi.org/10.2307/467880 Published: 01 September 1994
Lone Dog's Winter Count
Journal Article Lone Dog’s Winter Count. Diane Glancy. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 80 pages. $9.95 paper. and Claiming Breath. Diane Glancy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.115 pages. $15.95 cloth. Get access Lone Dog’s Winter Count. Diane Glancy. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 80 pages. $9.95 paper.Claiming Breath. Diane Glancy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 115 pages. $15.95 cloth. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn U…
Peopling Winter
Jay Wright's Poetics
Jay Wright’s Poetics: An Appreciation Get access Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 51–70, https://doi.org/10.2307/468066 Published: 01 September 1993
Removals
Journal Article Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. Lucy Maddox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.202 pages. $29.95. Get access Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. Lucy Maddox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 202 pages. $29.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Jazz Magazines of the 1930s
Throughout its existence jazz has been attended by a great body of journalism, which, as a whole, contains more reportage and features on jazz artists than interpretive studies contributing to a comprehensive and effective aesthetic criticism. Yet there is a surprising regularity of analysis within magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, the distillation of which has produced a fascinating branch of American prose. Diffuse but descriptive comment…
James Reese Europe and the Infancy of Jazz Criticism
During the second decade of the twentieth century, a new syncopated music for popular demand evolved that competed with the public attention to and popularity of ragtime. The music was jazz, and once the term became a means to describe this phenomenon, writers used it and freely and interchangeably until they fell into the habit of using the term almost exclusively, without being clear about what they meant. Of course, by 1917 the ragtime craze w…
Toward Theory and Method with the Jazz Oral History Project
Oral history, as a relatively young field, offers pleasures and challenges as we try to learn something from the perspective, discursive style, and the reminiscences of a respondent and occasionally try to figure out the motivations of an interviewer. That oral history is so young is reflected in the discussions about what function it serves, what methodology it should follow, and whether or not it should be ascribed the status of a discipline an…
Bones and Drums
Nigerian Music Review
Talk No Trash
Conga
The Demon of the Continent
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determi…
James Reese Europe and the Infancy of Jazz Criticism
During the second decade of the twentieth century, a new syncopated music for popular demand evolved that competed with the public attention to and popularity of ragtime. The music was jazz, and once the term became a means to describe this phenomenon, writers used it and freely and interchangeably until they fell into the habit of using the term almost exclusively, without being clear about what they meant. Of course, by 1917 the ragtime craze w…
The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Outer Thoughts
Heavy Spirits
Nigerian Music Review
Talk No Trash
Conga
The Assumed Ankh
Toward Theory and Method with the Jazz Oral History Project
Oral history, as a relatively young field, offers pleasures and challenges as we try to learn something from the perspective, discursive style, and the reminiscences of a respondent and occasionally try to figure out the motivations of an interviewer. That oral history is so young is reflected in the discussions about what function it serves, what methodology it should follow, and whether or not it should be ascribed the status of a discipline an…
Bones and Drums
Jazz Magazines of the 1930s
Throughout its existence jazz has been attended by a great body of journalism, which, as a whole, contains more reportage and features on jazz artists than interpretive studies contributing to a comprehensive and effective aesthetic criticism. Yet there is a surprising regularity of analysis within magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, the distillation of which has produced a fascinating branch of American prose. Diffuse but descriptive comment…
James Reese Europe and the Infancy of Jazz Criticism
During the second decade of the twentieth century, a new syncopated music for popular demand evolved that competed with the public attention to and popularity of ragtime. The music was jazz, and once the term became a means to describe this phenomenon, writers used it and freely and interchangeably until they fell into the habit of using the term almost exclusively, without being clear about what they meant. Of course, by 1917 the ragtime craze w…
Jay Wright's Poetics
Jay Wright’s Poetics: An Appreciation Get access Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 51–70, https://doi.org/10.2307/468066 Published: 01 September 1993
Removals
Journal Article Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. Lucy Maddox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.202 pages. $29.95. Get access Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. Lucy Maddox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 202 pages. $29.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
The Braided Rug, Pennyroyal, and the Pathos of Almira Todd
Yellow Wolf Spirit
Wolfsong
Journal Article Wolfsong. Louis Owens. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 256 pages. $12.95. Get access Wolfsong. Louis Owens. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 256 pages. $12.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 1994, Pages 139–141, https://doi.org/10.2307/467880 Published: 01 September 1994
Lone Dog's Winter Count
Journal Article Lone Dog’s Winter Count. Diane Glancy. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 80 pages. $9.95 paper. and Claiming Breath. Diane Glancy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.115 pages. $15.95 cloth. Get access Lone Dog’s Winter Count. Diane Glancy. Albuquerque: West End Press, 1991. 80 pages. $9.95 paper.Claiming Breath. Diane Glancy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 115 pages. $15.95 cloth. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn U…
Peopling Winter
A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu
Journal Article A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky. Edited by James Kari and Alan Borass. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, 1991. xxxviii + 485 pages, maps, photos. $16.00 paper. Get access A Dena'ina Legacy. K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky. Edited by James Kari and Alan Borass. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, …
Medicine River
Journal Article Medicine River. Thomas King. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1990. 261 pages. $18.95. Green Grass, Running Water. Thomas King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 360 pages. $21.95. Get access Medicine River. Thomas King. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1990. 261 pages. $18.95.Green Grass, Running Water. Thomas King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 360 pages. $21.95. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn University of Massachusetts …
Skidoo" ("Yes, That's It)
“2300 Skidoo” (“Yes, That’s It”) Ron Welburn (bio) I listened to Herbie Nichols’ music: Then, when the old man said to me “ ” I now had to learn turning over. Ron Welburn Ron Welburn is an enrolled member of the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy, a mentor for Wordcraft Circle, and chair of the Five Colleges, Inc., American Indian Studies Committee. He teaches American literatures at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His most recent coll…
Call and Remembrance
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996
A New Time Native Diversity
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 4, Fall 1996
Inuit Goggles 1957
Inuit Goggles 1957 Ron Welburn (bio) I heard in the Dead Lecturer’s “slits in the metal, for sun”* the resonance of Inuit goggles, my trope of resistance to the transatlantic endgame, impression from my ignorance of the cage with a heart beating, wishing it was somewhere else, when his someone else moved inside me. Snow storm and winter offer us the languages of survivance. The goggles frame reference to my wandering about with the rest of the pe…
Yellow Wolf Spirit
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