Narrowcast : poetry and audio research / Lytle Shaw.
2018
PS325 .S49 2018
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Title
Narrowcast : poetry and audio research / Lytle Shaw.
Author
Shaw, Lytle, author.
ISBN
9781503606579 (electronic book)
1503606570 (electronic book)
9780804797993
1503606570 (electronic book)
9780804797993
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PS325 .S49 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.5409
Note
Through four case studies of how mid-century American poetry used recording technologies to contest models of time being put forward by dominant media and the State, Narrowcast explores how poets Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Larry Eigner and Amiri Baraka mobilized recording as a new form of sonic field research even while they were being subject to tape-based surveillance by the CIA and the FBI.
Explores how poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subject 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.
Explores how poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subject 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2018).
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ProQuest (Firm)
Series
Post 45.
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Narrowcast.
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Table of Contents
Third personism : the FBI's poetics of immediacy in the 1960s
The Eigner sanction : keeping time from the American century
Olson's sonic walls : citizenship and surveillance from the OWI to the Nixon tapes
The strategic idea of north : Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones and White Alice.
The Eigner sanction : keeping time from the American century
Olson's sonic walls : citizenship and surveillance from the OWI to the Nixon tapes
The strategic idea of north : Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones and White Alice.