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Author St. Clair, Justin

Title Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age A Century of Books That Sing
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (183 p.)
Series Sound in Urban and Popular Culture Ser
Sound in Urban and Popular Culture Ser
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Schizotemporality -- Trajectory -- Notes -- 1. Playtime Reimagined: The Invention of the Soundtracked Book -- In the Beginning -- Once Upon a Time -- No Time Like the Present -- Play It Again, Sam -- Notes -- 2. Sounds Exotic: The Columbia Legacy Collection and Our Midcentury Imagination -- Alex Steinweiss and the Invention of the Album Cover -- Moe Asch, Harry Smith, and the Anthology of American Folk Music -- Identity, Exotica, and the Advent of Stereophony
The Making of Americans -- Bandits and Highwaymen -- American Outliers -- The CBS Legacy Collection -- The Medium Is the Massage -- Notes -- 3. Otherworldly Sounds: Alternative Spiritualities and the Soundtracked Novel -- Michael Nesmith and the Spirit of Hybridity -- L. Ron Hubbard, Space Opera, and the Spirit of Retrofuturism -- Ursula K. Le Guin and the Spirit of Appropriation -- Notes -- 4. Digital Readers: Paratextual Music and Interpretive Communities -- A Myth-Maker for Digital Flesh -- House of Leaves and Crowdsourced Interpretation -- Crossover Artists and the Soundtracked Book
That Playlist Feeling -- Notes -- Afterword: The Future May Have Already Passed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000591644
1000591646