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

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Part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Author: Jessica E. Teague, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Date Published: February 2023
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108793797

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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.
- Explores the relationship between sound recording technology and literature across multiple genres (fiction, poetry, autobiography, drama)
- Illustrates how contemporary remix culture is rooted in modernist avant-garde practices of writing and recording
- Offers richly archival readings of less-known works by canonical American authors.
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'… an important addition to the growing body of work that brings together literary studies and sound studies.' Robert Lawson-Peebles, Modern Language Review

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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108793797
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table 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.
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Jessica E. Teague, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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.