Wireless Imagination
Wireless Imagination

Author: Douglas Kahn

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780262611046

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By gathering both original essays and several newly translated documents into a single volume, editors Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead provide a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century," including the fantastic acoustic scenarios projected through the writings of Raymond Roussel, the "gap music" of Marcel Duchamp, the varied sonic activities of the early Russian avant-garde and of French Surrealism, the language labyrinths constructed by the producers of New German Horspiel, and the cut-up ventriloquism of William S. Burroughs. Approaches in the essays vary from detailed historical reconstructions to more speculative theory, providing a rich chorus of challenges to the culturally entrenched "regime of the visual." Supporting documents include F.T. Marinetti's explosive manifesto on the aesthetics of Futurist radio and the full text of Antonin Artaud's blistering radio performance, To Have Done with the Judgment of God.

Radio Imagination
Radio Imagination

Author: Clockshop

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9780692067987

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"In 2016, Clockshop commissioned four writers and eight artists to conduct research in Butler's archive at the Huntington Library , and to create new work based on their findings"--Page [4] of cover.

Theater of the Mind
Theater of the Mind

Author: Neil Verma

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0226853527

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For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.

The Dramatic Imagination
The Dramatic Imagination

Author: Robert Edmond Jones

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0878301844

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination

Author: Mark Grimshaw

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 877

ISBN-13: 0190460164

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In this two-volume Handbook, contributors address the tendency to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique, correcting the current bias towards visual imagination to instead highlight the many forms of sonic and musical imagination.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1
The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1

Author: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 877

ISBN-13: 0190460172

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Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.

Brutal Imagination PA
Brutal Imagination PA

Author: Cornelius Eady

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-01-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1101143576

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Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America. “A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village Voice This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. These two main themes showcase Cornelius Eady’s range: his deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger, and the way in which he combines the subtle with the charged, street idiom with elegant inversions, harsh images with the sweetly ordinary. Includes poems that inspired the libretto for Eady’s music-drama Running Man, a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Forbes
Forbes

Author: Bertie Charles Forbes

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 1020

ISBN-13:

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This business magazine covers domestic and international business topics. Special issues include Annual Report on American Industry, Forbes 500, Stock Bargains, and Special Report on Multinationals.

New Media and Popular Imagination
New Media and Popular Imagination

Author: William Boddy

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780198711469

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New Media and Popular Imagination offers a highly original account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication - radio, television, and digital media - have been anticipated, debated, and taken up in the twentieth-century United States. Intended as an intervention in the emerging scholarly and policy debates around contemporary digital culture, the book analyses popular responses to earlier moments of technological innovation in the twentieth-century. Successive electronic media have challenged the borders between private and public, disturbed notions of national identity, and disrupted the gendered routines and spaces of the private home. Illuminating both the continuities and disjunctions between old media and new, New Media and Popular Imagination offers new insights into the relationship between technological change and cultural form.