Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
From the Phonograph to the Remix
Published on 5. May 2021
264 pages
978-1-108-89287-2 (ISBN)
Description
Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. Uncovering a rich new archive of materials, this book offers a resonant reading of how writers across several genres, such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, William S. Burroughs, and others, navigated the intermedial spaces between texts and recordings. Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.
Reviews / Votes
'... an important addition to the growing body of work that brings together literary studies and sound studies.' Robert Lawson-Peebles, Modern Language ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
File size
3,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-89287-2 (9781108892872)
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Jessica E. Teague
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
From the Phonograph to the Remix
Book
02/2023
Cambridge University Press
€35.70
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Jessica E. Teague
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
From the Phonograph to the Remix
Book
05/2021
Cambridge University Press
€108.60
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Introduction: Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature After the Phonograph; 1. Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America; 2. Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sidney Bechet; 3. Press Play: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and the Tape Recorder; 4. The Stereophonic Poetics of Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka; 5. From Cut-Up to Mashup: Literary Remix in the Digital Age, feat. Kevin Young, and Chuck Palahniuk; A Post-Electric Postscript: Recording and Remix Onstage.
