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Zusatztext Noise, in John Melillo’s account, is a defining feature of radical modernist and postwar poetics. But not noise as entropy. This book explores noise as expressive of what’s beyond mundane sense, the noise heard by Owen and Sassoon on the killing field of World War 1. Staged at the Cabaret Voltaire, with Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Langston Hughes, Olson, Tracie Morris, Richard Hell and Susan Howe as guides, Melillo let’s noise stay noisy. Informationen zum Autor John Melillo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, USA. He researches and teaches modern and contemporary literature, poetry, and sound studies. Melillo also makes noise/music under the name Algae & Tentacles. Vorwort Frames the history of 20th-century poetry as listening to and writing through noise and outlines a history of noise through poetry and poetic performance. Zusammenfassung By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice. Materializing in the threshold between the heard and the unheard, noise emerges in the differentiation and otherness of sound. It arises in the folding of an “outside” into the “inside” of poetic performance both on and off the page. Through a series of case studies ranging from verse by ear-witnesses to the First World War, Dadaist provocations, jazz modernist song and poetry, early New York City punk rock, contemporary sound poetry, and noise music, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk describes productive failures of communication that theorize listening against the grain of sound’s sense. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. (Re)Versing Noise: Ear-Witness, Metrical Form, and the Western Front 2. Dada Bruitism and the Body3. The Persistence of “That Da-Da Strain”: The Modernist Travels of “Da”4. Projective Versification, Sound Recording, and Technologizing the Body5. Noise and the City: Writing and Punk Performance, 1965-19806. Noise Music, Noise History: Articulations of Sound Forms in Time Notes Bibliography ...
