Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature

From the Phonograph to the Remix

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature

From the Phonograph to the Remix

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature after the Phonograph
  11. Chapter 1 Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America
  12. Chapter 2 Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sidney Bechet
  13. Chapter 3 Press Play: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and the Tape Recorder
  14. Chapter 4 The Stereophonic Poetics ofLangston Hughes and Amiri Baraka1
  15. Chapter 5 From Cut-up to Mashup: Literary Remix in the Digital Age,feat. Kevin Young and Chuck Palahniuk
  16. A Post-Electric Postscript Recording and Remix Onstage
  17. Notes
  18. Works Cited
  19. Index