Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age

Offering both a short history and a theoretical framework, this book is the first extended study of the soundtracked book as a media form.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

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