New,Sound Recording Technology and American Literature: From the Phonograph to the Remix

Contents

• Introduction: Resonant Reading: Listening to American Literature After the Phonograph;
• 1. Ears Taut to Hear: John Dos Passos Records America;
• 2. Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sidney Bechet;
• 3. Press Play: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and the Tape Recorder;
• 4. The Stereophonic Poetics of Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka;
• 5. From Cut-Up to Mashup: Literary Remix in the Digital Age, feat. Kevin Young, and Chuck Palahniuk; A Post-Electric Postscript: Recording and Remix Onstage.