Author : John Melillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501359924
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk by : John Melillo
Download or read book The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk written by John Melillo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in the disfiguration of poetic voice. Materializing in the threshold between the heard and the unheard, noise emerges in the differentiation and otherness of sound. It arises in the folding of an “outside” into the “inside” of poetic performance both on and off the page. Through a series of case studies ranging from verse by ear-witnesses to the First World War, Dadaist provocations, jazz modernist song and poetry, early New York City punk rock, contemporary sound poetry, and noise music, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk describes productive failures of communication that theorize listening against the grain of sound's sense.