The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk
ISBN-10
1501359924
ISBN-13
9781501359927
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2020-09-03
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
John Melillo

Description

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.

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