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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Post-45
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Post 45.
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| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Through 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, this book explores how New Left poets 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- History -- 20th century.
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Sound -- Recording and reproducing. |
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History. |
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Sound recordings and the arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sound recordings and the arts. |
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United States. |
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Electronic surveillance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Electronic surveillance. |
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New Left -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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New Left. |
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Oral interpretation of poetry.
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Oral interpretation of poetry. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaw, Lytle. Narrowcast. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9780804797993 (DLC) 2017055027 |
| ISBN |
9781503606579 (electronic book) |
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1503606570 (electronic book) |
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9780804797993 (hardcover) |
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