Sound Recording Technology and American Literature - From the Phonograph to the Remix

List of contents

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.

About the author

Jessica E. Teague is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The intersections between literature, sound, and technology are the focus of her research. Her work has been published in journals such as American Quarterly and Sound Studies.

Summary

This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica E. Teague
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108840132
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84013-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Music, MUSIC / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism