Panel: Once Upon a Time
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
21-3-1980 12:00 PM
End Date
21-3-1980 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 21, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers," Harry Crews, Selo Black Crow, and James Dickey participate in a panel called “Once Upon a Time.” The panelists share stories through oral tradition. Black Crow, a Lakota spiritual leader and activist, tells the story behind sweat lodge ceremony, discusses how stories about sacred ceremonies are handed down between generations, jokes about how native people come to know and conflate the myths and stories of white people, and talks about his experience in Korea during the war and defending the Sundance. James Dickey tells a story about Flannery O'Conner's research habits, discusses the storytelling methods of writers and comedians, and the transition of Southern intellectualism from art to the law. Harry Crews talks about the influence of full-color Sears Roebuck catalogs on his young imagination and shares an anecdote about visiting a moonshiner. John Little discusses Southern storytelling and North Dakota storytelling. The panelists also respond to audience questions about what is lost in the writing of an otherwise oral story, the effect of television on storytelling, the homogenization of dialect, and regionalism and cultural pluralism.
Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference.
Panel: Once Upon a Time
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 21, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers," Harry Crews, Selo Black Crow, and James Dickey participate in a panel called “Once Upon a Time.” The panelists share stories through oral tradition. Black Crow, a Lakota spiritual leader and activist, tells the story behind sweat lodge ceremony, discusses how stories about sacred ceremonies are handed down between generations, jokes about how native people come to know and conflate the myths and stories of white people, and talks about his experience in Korea during the war and defending the Sundance. James Dickey tells a story about Flannery O'Conner's research habits, discusses the storytelling methods of writers and comedians, and the transition of Southern intellectualism from art to the law. Harry Crews talks about the influence of full-color Sears Roebuck catalogs on his young imagination and shares an anecdote about visiting a moonshiner. John Little discusses Southern storytelling and North Dakota storytelling. The panelists also respond to audience questions about what is lost in the writing of an otherwise oral story, the effect of television on storytelling, the homogenization of dialect, and regionalism and cultural pluralism.
Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1980/day5/2
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.