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As the first study of its kind, this book explores the publication of poetry on sound carriers in the US postwar era from an aesthetic as well as an historical point of view. Combining approaches from media and literary studies, it explains why labels and individuals like Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, or John Giorno straddled the lines between music, poetry, and visual arts using audio recording and playing devices. It sheds light on the sonic imaginaries that commercial and avant-gardist recording projects sought to mobilize and sometimes also unwittingly reproduced in this context.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "LP Aided Poets," Real Poetry, and Postwar High Fidelity
Part 1: Staging Readings and Poetry Performances
1 Recording Practices and the Sonic Imaginary of the Spoken Word
1 Political Black Voices: The Black Forum
2 Sound Communities: Giorno Poetry Systems
3 The Education of the People: Spoken Arts, Caedmon, Folkways
2 Constructing and Practicing the Midcentury Poetry Reading
1 The Return of the Bard: Phonocentrism and the Poetry Reading
2 The Authorial Poetry Reading
3 Listening Practices and Sonic Remediations of Poetry
1 Phonograph Realness—Authentication, Authorial Presence, and Immediacy
2 Audiopoetry as Temporal and Spatial Constellation
3 Listening as Shared Practice
Part 2: Medial Forms of Staging Audiopoetry
4 Recorded Book, Documented Performance, Audio Work
1 The Recorded Book and the Logic of the Transparent Reader
2 Mood Encapsulated: The Documented Performance
3 Press Play: The Audio Work
5 (Counter-)Intimacies on Tape: Affects and Seductive Voices
1 Intimacies of the Poet's Voice
2 Writers of the Revolution: Closeness, Intimacy and Authorship
3 The Erotics of John Giorno's Audiopoetry
6 Communal Rituals: between National Address and New Self-Understandings
1 Community, Nation, and Self-Understandings in Postwar Poetics
2 National Treasures and Collective Feeling
3 It's Nation Time: The Sounds of a Future Black Nation
4 Spiritual Communities: The Subculture Speaks
Part 3: Staging Spatiality on Audiopoetry
7 Domestic Listening and the Politics of Sonic Homemaking
1 Scenes of Domestic Listening and Sonic Homemaking
2 National Time and Domestic Space
3 Deconstructions of Homeliness in Audio Works
8 Into the Streets: the Poetics of Portability and Everyday Experience
1 The Cultural Meanings of Tape Recording and Mobile Mediation
2 Sonic Realism and Documentary Configurations in Bernadette Mayer's Memory
3 Tape Realness and the Everyday Experience in Postwar Audiopoetry
9 "Open the Lines to the Poets!" The Poetry Hotline as Poetic Network
1 A Short History of Dial-a-Poem
2 Community Outreach and Censorship
Epilogue: Remix! Poetic Networks, Digital Media, and Pop Culture
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