Sound recording technology and American literature : from the phonograph to the remix /
"When Gertrude Stein published Three Lives, her first book-length work, in 1909, readers were struck by her peculiar, repetitive style. As one dust jacket review put it, Stein's prose was like a "stubborn phonograph." Taken in passing, the comparison might seem unremarkable, but...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature After the Phonograph
- Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America
- Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sidney
- Press Play: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and the Tape Recorder
- Stereophonic Poetics of Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka
- 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.