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Acoustic Entanglements

Sound and Aesthetic Practice

Kim, Sabine

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 278

2017

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Combining a cultural history of sound with media and literary studies, ‘Acoustic Entanglements’ presents a new perspective on the entangled affiliations of transnational mobility, diasporic cultural memory, embodied performance, and the material practices of aesthetic acts. Starting by reassessing Emily Dickinson’s poetry as participating in an emergent phonographic logic, this book proposes that sound in modernity assumes the capacity to cross time and space, ‘entangling’ past and present, living and dead, periphery and alleged center. From this vantage point, the study examines Lillian Allen’s dub poetry as an ethical demand for economic justice made via sound, Janet Cardiff’s audio walks as renegotiating the cultural place of Europe for a North American imaginary, and Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore’s performances as voicing indigenous resilience in the present. Focusing on Canada and the US, the book brings together the fields of sound studies and transnational American studies.

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Cover Cover
Titel 3
Imprint 4
Table of Contents 7
Table of Figures 9
Acknowledgements 11
1 Introduction: Sound that Moves 13
2 Spirited Media, Aural Excesses: Emily Dickinson and the Phonograph 21
2.1 Remembering and Recording in the Nineteenth Century 21
2.1.1 Dickinson’s Phonographic Logic 23
2.1.2 Composition as Intermedial Gesture 24
2.1.3 Dickinson’s Aural Excess 27
2.1.4 Bolts of Melody: Dickinson’s Poetry 29
2.2 Speaking Machines, Media Archives 32
2.3 Spiritualism and Techniques of Hearing 40
2.3.1 Transnationalism: Voices at a Distance 42
2.3.2 Dictation: Discourses of Hearing in the Nineteenth Century 44
2.4 Poetic Transfers 49
2.5 Detached Voices 51
3 (Re)Mixing Histories: Lillian Allen and the Routes of Dub Poetry 53
3.1 Performing Memory 53
3.2 Transnational Politics 57
3.3 The Changing Same: Remix Poetics in the Diaspora 63
3.4 Canadian Routes and Roots in the Caribbean 74
3.5 Transgressive Sounds 85
4 Subjects of Hearing, Subject to History: The Sound Works of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller 89
4.1 Disciplining Hearing 89
4.2 Hearing Divided among the Senses 92
4.3 Sound and Spatiality: The Audio Walks of Cardiff and Miller 97
4.3.1 Imagining History without Us: "Walk Münster" (1997 99
4.3.2 Canada and the Audio Walks 104
4.3.3 Canadian Subjects and the Spectacle of Modernity 107
4.3.4 From Oakville to Louisiana: Beyond Site-Specificity 112
4.4 "Murder of Crows" (2008) and the Politics of Affect 116
4.5 Practices of Looking in "Eyes of Laura" (2005 122
4.6 Calling to Attention 128
5 Stratified Sound: Rebecca Belmore and William Forsythe 133
5.1 Transnational Trajectories 133
5.2 "Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan": The Sound of Protest 135
5.3 Articulating Indigenous Modernity 141
5.4 Writing Histories, Reading Systems in William Forsythe 143
6 Conclusion: Confinement and Liberation 151
Bibliography 159
Index 175
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