Novel Sounds : Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll
Florence Dore
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Utgitt | New York : Columbia University Press , 2018
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| Omfang | 200 s.
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| Opplysninger | Publisher Synopsis In Florence Dore's electrifying, genre-busting tour de force, the mid-twentieth-century inventors of literary formalism, tracing poetic tradition to the ballad form, inadvertently open literature's floodgates to encompass the bold 'novel sounds' of rock 'n' roll. Southern fiction, no less than American culture, would never be the same.--Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University-Bloomington This is an original and subtle book, with punk-rock ricochets.--Greil Marcus In Novel Sounds, Dore is interested in how a mass cultural phenomenon like rock 'n' roll can help illuminate realities about institutionalized high culture. Beginning with the case of Lead Belly, she traces the low and high cultural currents that the folk singer helped set in motion, specifically the mass popularization of Southern black music as 'rock 'n' roll' and the intellectual enthusiasm for folk ballads.--Max McKenna "PopMatters " Novel Sounds is a brilliantly literary account of rock and roll and American culture. From Lead Belly at the MLA to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, Dore demonstrates how profoundly and unexpectedly entwined our literary histories are with their sonic media. She ensures we'll never listen to a ballad or read a novel from the era in the same way again.--Kate Marshall, University of Notre Dame Every chapter of Novel Sounds works at a high and steady pitch of intelligence and cogency. Florence Dore's work teems with rich archival unearthings and interpretive ingenuity. Dore's intricate connections, juxtapositions, and analyses of multimedia interanimation are never less than absorbing and are often eye-opening both at the level of textual forms and in the larger terms of cultural understanding in which they were embedded.--Eric Lott, author of Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism. - AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Minstrel Realism at the Birth of Rock1. Fugitives and Futility: Agrarian Ballad Novels in Bob Dylan's Moment2. New Critical Noise in Music City: Thomas Pynchon's William Faulkner3. The Ballad's Gender: Femininity and Information in Georgia4. The Lead Belly Thing: William Styron's RecordsCoda. Nobel Sounds: Bob Dylan's Novel PrizeNotesBibliographyDiscographyFilmographyIndex. - Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies--tape, radio, vinyl--to develop the "rock novel." Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature
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| ISBN | 9780231185233 : 200 kr.
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| Hylleplass | 781.64 DOR
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