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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503606562
• ISBN13: 9781503606562
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"