Sonic interventions / editors, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Joy Smith, Marijke de Valck.

• Superior document: Thamyris intersecting, no. 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Mieszkowski, Sylvia.; Smith, Joy.; Valck, Marijke de.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Thamyris intersecting ; no. 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Sonic Interventions makes a compelling case for the importance of sound in theorizing literature, subjectivity and culture. Sound is usually understood as our second sense and – as our belief in a visually dominated culture prevails – remains of secondary interest. Western cultures are considered to...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Editors Sonic Interventions
• Acknowledgments / Editors Sonic Interventions
• Sonic Interventions: An Introduction / Sylvia Mieszkowski , Joy Smith and Marijke de Valck
• The New International of Rhythmic Feeling(s) / Fred Moten
• “Affirmative Resonances” in the City?: Sound, Imagination and Urban Space in Early 1930's Germany / Carolyn Birdsall
• “You Can’t Flow Over This”: Ursula Rucker’s Acoustic Illusion / Marisa Parham
• Reciting: The Voice of the Other / Mahmut Mutman
• Disturbing Noises – Haunting Sounds: Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist / Sylvia Mieszkowski
• Corporeal Voices, Sexual Differentiations: New Materialist Perspectives on Music, Singing and Subjectivity / Milla Tiainen
• Invisible Music (Ellison) / David Copenhafer
• Historicizing the Ghostly Sound of a Ghastly Sight: James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie / Soyica Diggs
• Between Orality and Literature: The Alida Folktale in Ellen Ombre’s Short Fiction “Fragments” / Joy Smith
• “Sonido ciudadísimo”: Black Noise Andalusian Style in Contemporary Spain / Susanne Stemmler
• Hip Hop Nation and Gender Politics / Anikó Imre
• Situating Sound: The Space and Time of the Dancehall Session / Julian Henriques
• The Contributors / Editors Sonic Interventions
• Index / Editors Sonic Interventions.