Sound Recording Technology and American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108793797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 262 str.

Jessica E. Teague

Opis

This book investigates the sustained engagement between American literature and sound recording technologies during the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'… an important addition to the growing body of work that brings together literary studies and sound studies.' Robert Lawson-Peebles, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

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.