St. Clair | Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age | Buch | 978-1-032-10170-5 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Sound in Urban and Popular Culture

St. Clair

Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age

A Century of "Books That Sing"
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-10170-5
Verlag: Routledge

A Century of "Books That Sing"

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Sound in Urban and Popular Culture

ISBN: 978-1-032-10170-5
Verlag: Routledge


Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked book as a media form. A soundtracked book is a print or digital publication for which a recorded, musical complement has been produced. Early examples were primarily developed for the children's market, but by the middle of the twentieth century, ethnographers had begun producing book-and-record combinations that used print to contextualize musical artifacts. The last half-century has witnessed the rapid expansion of the adult market, including soundtracked novels from celebrated writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Kathy Acker, and Mark Z. Danielewski. While often dismissed as gimmicks, this volume argues that soundtracked books represent an interesting case study in media consumption. Unlike synchronous multimedia forms, the vast majority of soundtracked books require that audience activity be split between reading and listening, thus defining the user experience and often shaping the content of singing books as well.

Mapping the form's material evolution, this book charts a previously unconsidered pathway through more than a century of recording formats and packaging strategies, emphasizing the synergies and symbioses that characterize the marriage of sound and print. As such, it will be of value to scholars and postgraduate students working in media studies, literary studies, and sound studies.

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Postgraduate and Undergraduate


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Weitere Infos & Material


Introduction 1 Playtime Reimagined: The Invention of the Soundtracked Book 2 Sounds Exotic: The Columbia Legacy Collection and Our Midcentury Imagination 3 Otherworldly Sounds: Alternative Spiritualities and the Soundtracked Novel 4 Digital Readers: Paratextual Music and Interpretive Communities Afterword: The Future May Have Already Passed


Justin St. Clair is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Alabama, where he specializes in postmodern and contemporary fiction with an emphasis on sound studies. He is the author of Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening (2013).



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