Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research

by Lytle Shaw

Book Overview

Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies from sounds, but this book listens closely to tape's embedded information, offering a counterintuitive site-specific account of 1960s poetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804797994
• ISBN13: 9780804797993
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"