The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship
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The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship by Hazel Smith
This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, disability studies, musicology, psychoanalysis, music psychology, emotion and affect theory, new media, cosmopolitanism, globalization, ethnicity and biraciality. Chapters range from critical analyses of the representation of music and the musical profession in contemporary novels to examination of the forms and cultural meanings of contemporary intermedia and multimedia works. The book argues that conjunctions between words and music create emergent structures and meanings that can facilitate culturally transgressive and boundary- interrogating effects. In particular, it conceptualises ways in which word-music relationships can facilitate cross-cultural exchange as musico-literary miscegenation, using interracial sexual relationships as a metaphor. Smith also inspects the dynamics of improvisation and composition, and the different ways they intersect with performance. Furthermore, the book explores the huge changes that computer-based real-time algorithmic text and music generation are making to the literature-music nexus. This volume provides fascinating insight into the relationship between literature and music, and will be of interest to those fields as well as New Media and Performance Studies."For newcomers to musico-literary studies, Smith’s book is an excellent introduction, not only because of the concision with which the author outlines the topic’s history, but also because of the breadth of theories and analyses with which she exploresThis book is an excellent and valuable volume and an important contribution to studies of music and literature."
- Christopher Hill, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hazel Smith is a Research Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She is author of The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography and other academic books. Hazel is also a poet, performer and new media artist. Her website is at www.australysis.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367872410 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367872412 |
| Title | The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship |
| Author | Hazel Smith |
| Series | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-12-10 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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