Book contents
- Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
- Cambridge studies in American Literature and Culture
- Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Resonant Reading
- Chapter 1 Ears Taut to Hear
- Chapter 2 Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography
- Chapter 3 Press Play
- Chapter 4 The Stereophonic Poetics ofLangston Hughes and Amiri Baraka
- Chapter 5 From Cut-up to Mashup
- A Post-Electric Postscript Recording and Remix Onstage
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Recent Books In This Series (continued from page ii)
A Post-Electric Postscript - Recording and Remix Onstage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
- Cambridge studies in American Literature and Culture
- Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Resonant Reading
- Chapter 1 Ears Taut to Hear
- Chapter 2 Ethnographic Transcription and the Jazz Auto/Biography
- Chapter 3 Press Play
- Chapter 4 The Stereophonic Poetics ofLangston Hughes and Amiri Baraka
- Chapter 5 From Cut-up to Mashup
- A Post-Electric Postscript Recording and Remix Onstage
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Recent Books In This Series (continued from page ii)
Summary
In the Postscript, I turn to Anne Washburn’s 2012 Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play. Set in a postapocalyptic near-future after the electrical grid has collapsed, Mr. Burns offers a meditation on the persistence of storytelling in a postdigital age. Although the premise is simple, even comical -- a band of survivors try to recall and restage episodes of the The Simpsons -- the play’s remix of the detritus of contemporary popular culture offers a more serious appraisal of the digital era and the nature of art. However, my own reading reveals surprising ironies about even the most digitally resistant genre (theatre) and the embeddedness of sound recording in present-day writing practices. The questions posited about the relationships between new and old media, and between sound recording, writing, and performance, are ones that reverberate across this book.
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- Sound Recording Technology and American LiteratureFrom the Phonograph to the Remix, pp. 189 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021