Dissonant Records
Close Listening to Literary Archives
$141.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2024
Summary
Silence is not absence. It may be perceived as meaningless, or it may not be perceived at all, but it takes up space. In Dissonant Records, Tanya Clement makes the case for spoken word audio recordings within the archives. She explains why we tend to not use these audio recordings in research, what silences exist in the cultural record, and what difference it makes when we start to listen. From recordings of the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre to Anne Sexton’s recorded therapy sessions, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548724 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262548720 |
| Author: | Tanya E. Clement |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Media Origins |
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Critics Review
“By adroitly dissecting the sonic-material aspects of African American, Native American, and other marginalized practices, Clement uncovers the silences in archival recordings of key events in their (mis)representation across a variety of political, institutional, and media contexts.”—Veit Erlmann, Editor of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal“The practical reports in this splendid book should be studied and meditated by anyone doing any kind of literary study, especially literary studies that work with texts.”—Jerome McGann, University Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia“… audio matters. This is the fundamental claim of Dissonant Records, Tanya E. Clement’s important new book on sound recordings, orality, media technologies, and what is often referred to simply as the archive, a site still pulsing with the power relations that summoned its scraps into an archipelago of library file boxes.” —Textual Cultures
About The Author
Tanya E. Clement
Tanya E. Clement is Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She also leads High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS).
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