Title Novel sounds : Southern fiction in the age of rock and roll / Florence Dore

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Minstrel realism at the birth of rock -- Fugitives and futility: agrarian ballad novels in Bob Dylan's moment -- New critical noise in Music City: Thomas Pynchon's William Faulkner -- The ballad's gender: femininity and information in Georgia -- The Lead Belly thing: William Styron's records -- Coda: Nobel sounds: Bob Dylan's novel prize Summary The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American authors native to rock's birthplace began to write fiction about the electrification of those ballads, translating into literary form key cultural changes that gave rise to the infectious music coming out of their region. In Novel Sounds, Florence Dore tells the story of how these forms of expression became intertwined and shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies--tape, radio, vinyl--to develop the "rock novel." Dore considers the work of Southern writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and William Styron alongside the music of Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and Southern literature. Along with rock pioneers, Southern authors drew from blues, country, jazz, and other forms to create a new brand of realism that redefined the Southern vernacular as global, electric, and notably white. Resurrecting this Southern literary tradition at the birth of rock, Dore clarifies the surprising but unmistakable influence of rock and roll on the American novel. Along the way, she explains how literature came to resemble rock and roll, an anti-institutional art form if there ever was one, at the very moment academics claimed literature for the institution Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Rock music in literature. American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Rock music -- Social aspects -- United States Rock music -- Southern States -- History and criticism 1900 - 1999. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) American fiction Rock music Rock music in literature Rock music -- Social aspects Southern States United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018002557 ISBN 9780231546058 023154605X 0231185227 9780231185226 9780231185233 0231185235

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