Narrowcast : Poetry and Audio Research / Lytle Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Lytle, Author.

Series:

Post*45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Electronic surveillance--United States--History--20th century.

New Left--United States--History--20th century.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--History--20th century.

Sound recordings and the arts--United States--History--20th century.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies from sounds, but this book listens closely to tape's embedded information, offering a counterintuitive site-specific account of 1960s poetic recordings. Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Larry Eigner, and Amiri Baraka all used recording to contest models of time being put forward by dominant media and the state, exploring non-monumental time and subverting media schedules of work, consumption, leisure, and national crises. Surprisingly, their methods at once dovetailed with those of the state collecting evidence against them and ran up against the same technological limits. Arguing that CIA and FBI "researchers" shared unexpected terrain not only with poets but with famous theorists such as Fredric Jameson and Hayden White, Lytle Shaw reframes the status of tape recordings in postwar poetics and challenges notions of how tape might be understood as a mode of evidence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Audio Research: A Theme Song

1 Third Personism: The FBI’s Poetics of Immediacy in the 1960s

2 The Eigner Sanction: Keeping Time from the American Century

3 Olson’s Sonic Walls: Citizenship and Surveillance from the OWI to the Nixon Tapes

4 The Strategic Idea of North: Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones, and White Alice

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503606579

1503606570

OCLC:

1178770050