{"product_id":"novel-sounds-9780231185226","title":"Novel Sounds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovel Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an original and subtle book, with punk-rock ricochets. -- Greil Marcus\u003cbr\u003eEvery chapter of \u003ci\u003eNovel Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e works at a high and steady pitch of intelligence and cogency.  Florence Dore's work teems with rich archival unearthings and interpretive ingenuity.  Dore’s intricate connections, juxtapositions, and analyses of multimedia interanimation are never less than absorbing and are often eye-opening both at the level of textual forms and in the larger terms of cultural understanding in which they were embedded. -- Eric Lott, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Florence Dore's electrifying, genre-busting tour de force, the mid-twentieth-century inventors of literary formalism, tracing poetic tradition to the ballad form, inadvertently open literature's floodgates to encompass the bold 'novel sounds' of rock 'n' roll.  Southern fiction, no less than American culture, would never be the same. -- Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University-Bloomington\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovel Sounds \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliantly literary account of rock and roll and American culture. From Lead Belly at the MLA to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Dore demonstrates how profoundly and unexpectedly entwined our literary histories are with their sonic media. She ensures we’ll never listen to a ballad or read a novel from the era in the same way again. -- Kate Marshall, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNovel Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e, Dore is interested in how a mass cultural  phenomenon like rock 'n' roll can help illuminate realities about  institutionalized high culture. Beginning with the case of Lead Belly,  she traces the low and high cultural currents that the folk singer  helped set in motion, specifically the mass popularization of Southern  black music as 'rock 'n' roll' and the intellectual enthusiasm for folk  ballads. -- Max McKenna * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003eA stimulating addition to the literature on southern American fiction. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA pleasing option for readers who enjoy celebrated music writers like [Greil] Marcus or Peter Guralnick. * Chapter 16 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Minstrel Realism at the Birth of Rock\u003cbr\u003e1. Fugitives and Futility: Agrarian Ballad Novels in Bob Dylan’s Moment\u003cbr\u003e2. New Critical Noise in Music City: Thomas Pynchon’s William Faulkner\u003cbr\u003e3. The Ballad’s Gender: Femininity and Information in Georgia\u003cbr\u003e4. The Lead Belly Thing: William Styron’s Records\u003cbr\u003eCoda. Nobel Sounds: Bob Dylan’s Novel Prize\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eDiscography\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400324817239,"sku":"9780231185226","price":75.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231185226.jpg?v=1730470393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/novel-sounds-9780231185226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}