Dissonant Records
Close Listening to Literary Archives
Published on 6. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-262-54872-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Disonant Records is an intermedia genealogy that considers the social and technical contexts of archival recordings, and the role silence plays in history as a conduit of dissonance or resistance within and beyond established academic, government, and cultural heritage institutions"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54872-4 (9780262548724)
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08/2024
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Person
Tanya E. Clement is Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She also leads High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS).
Content
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Records and Resonance in the Archives
1. Amplify: Close Listening to Silencing and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
2. Distortion: Authority, Authenticity, and Agency in Recordings of Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk
3. Interference: Silence and the Ideal Listener in Ralph Ellison’s American Novel
4. Compression: Self-Expression and the Entelechy of Finitude in Anne Sexton’s Poem “For the Year of the Insane”
5. Reception: Conocimiento in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Spirituality Recordings
Coda: Distant Listening and Resonance
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Introduction: Records and Resonance in the Archives
1. Amplify: Close Listening to Silencing and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
2. Distortion: Authority, Authenticity, and Agency in Recordings of Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk
3. Interference: Silence and the Ideal Listener in Ralph Ellison’s American Novel
4. Compression: Self-Expression and the Entelechy of Finitude in Anne Sexton’s Poem “For the Year of the Insane”
5. Reception: Conocimiento in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Spirituality Recordings
Coda: Distant Listening and Resonance
Notes
References
Index