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Record Nr.

UNINA9910901887603321

Autore

Clement Tanya Elizabeth

Titolo

Dissonant records : close listening to literary archives / / Tanya E. Clement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024

ISBN

0-262-37922-8

0-262-37923-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Media origins

Disciplina

929.1072

Soggetti

Literature - Archival resources

Sound archives - Social aspects

Literature - Research

Listening - Social aspects

Intermediality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Records and Resonance in the Archives -- Amplify : Close Listening to Silencing and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre -- Distortion : Authority, Authenticity, and Agency in Recordings of Zora Neale Hurston's Black Folk -- Interference : Silence and the Ideal Listener in Ralph Ellison's American Novel -- Compression : Self-Expression and the Entelechy of Finitude in Anne Sexton's Poem 'For the Year of the Insane' -- Reception : Conocimiento in Gloria Anzaldúa's Spirituality Recordings -- Coda. Distant Listening and Resonance.

Sommario/riassunto

"Disonant Records is an intermedia genealogy that considers the social and technical contexts of archival recordings, and the role silence plays in history as a conduit of dissonance or resistance within and beyond established academic, government, and cultural heritage institutions"--