Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies

Morris, Adelaide ed.; N. Katherine Hayles; Marjorie Perloff; Nathaniel Mackey; Fred Moten; Michael Davidson; Jed Rasula; Steve McCaffery; John Cage; H.D.; F.T. Marinetti; Miles Davis; Henri Chopin; Edward Kamau Brathwaite

ISBN 10: 0807846708 / ISBN 13: 9780807846704

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

About this Item

Contributors include N. Katherine Hayles, Marjorie Perloff, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Michael Davidson, Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, among others. CD included, scratch free and playable. Features recordings of John Cage, H.D., F.T. Marinetti, Miles Davis, Henri Chopin, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, among others (see image for full track list). Bumping along edges, especially at corners, and rubbing to cover. Otherwise a very good copy free of internal markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807846708
• ISBN 13: 9780807846704
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 15.6W x 23.39H x 2.29D centimeters 15.6 centimeters width by 23.39 centimeters height by 2.29 centimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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-poämes, the authors argue, these states of sound make bold but wavering statements -- statements held only partially in check by meaning.

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.

About the Author

Adalaide Morris is professor of English and chair of the English department at the University of Iowa.