Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies | 
 enlarge | Author: Adalaide (ed.) Morris
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0807846708
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.904
EAN: 9780807846704
ASIN: 0807846708
Publication Date: January 19, 1998
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Product Description
By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones, phonographs, radios, loudspeakers, microphones, and tape recorders became facts of everyday life.The collection's twelve essays focus on earplay in texts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, H.D., Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Robert Duncan, and Kamau Brathwaite and in performances by John Cage, Caribbean DJ-poets, and Cecil Taylor. From the early twentieth-century soundscapes of Futurist and Dadaist 'sonosphers' to Henri Chopin's electroacoustical audio-poemes, the authors argue, these states of sound make bold but wavering statements—statements held only partially in check by meaning. The accompanying CD offers soundtracks of early radio sounds, poetry readings, Dada cabaret performances, jazzoetry, audiopoems, and contemporary Caribbean DJ dub poetry. The contributors are Loretta Collins, James A. Connor, Michael Davidson, N. Katherine Hayles, Nathaniel Mackey, Steve McCaffery, Alec McHoul, Toby Miller, Adalaide Morris, Fred Moten, Marjorie Perloff, Jed Rasula, and Garrett Stewart.
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must own if you're into sound art/theory/poetry, etc. July 10, 2003
St. Jerome (orange county, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The title of my review says it all--this is an essential collection for anyone serious about sound art/theory/poetry or avant-garde music. The CD is a very nice bonus, full of unbelievable rarities as well.
review copied from netstoreusa.com for Amazon November 28, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
By focusing on "earplay" in texts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and other modern writers, this collection's twelve essays investigates the relationship between acoustical technologies and 20th-century experimental poetics. The accompanying CD offers soundtracks of early radio sounds, poetry readings, Dada cabaret performances, jazzoetry, audio-poems and contemporary Caribbean DJ dub poetry.
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