Category: Music

June 17, 2022

Robert G. O’Meally in Conversation with Justin Liang About Antagonistic Cooperation

From the collages of Romare Bearden and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat, to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, in Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of...

July 6, 2018

Novel Sounds: A Playlist

“Every chapter of Novel Sounds works at a high and steady pitch of intelligence and cogency. 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...

July 5, 2018

Florence Dore Moderator: Rock and Literature II

“In 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...

July 4, 2018

Introducing Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction In The Age Of Rock And Roll

“This is an original and subtle book, with punk-rock ricochets.” ~ Greil Marcus This week, our featured book is Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, by Florence Dore! Today we are happy to bring you an excerpt...

July 3, 2018

Florence Dore on Bob Dylan

“Novel Sounds is 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...

July 2, 2018

Book Giveaway! Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

This week, our featured book is Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, by Florence Dore! To enter for your chance to win, please complete all required fields below. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content...

June 19, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of blog posts from the world of university presses.

December 10, 2014

Coney Island in Song

A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion edited by Louis and John Parascandola includes some of the best work of fiction and poetry on Coney Island from Walt Whitman and Federico García Lorca to Djuna Barnes and Colson...

February 12, 2014

Quadrophenia: Album, Movie, and Now, Book!

The newest entry in the Cultographies series is Quadrophenia by Stephen Glynn. The 1979 film is, of course, based on the Who’s concept album Quadrophenia (1973) and tells the story of young mod Jimmy Cooper and the 1964 clash between...

January 29, 2014

Pete Seeger and the Hudson River

The recent death of Pete Seeger has produced not only an outpouring of tributes for his contributions to American music but also to his work in helping to clean and preserve the Hudson River. In the following passage from The...

October 30, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Benjamin Britten's Opera

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have a brief excerpt from Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses the opera, Death in Venice, by Benjamin Britten,...

August 23, 2012

Pussy Riot and Rosi Braidotti

“We realized that this country needs a militant, punk-feminist, street band that will rip through Moscow’s streets and squares, mobilize public energy against the evil crooks of the Putinist junta and enrich the Russian cultural and political opposition.”—Serafima, Pussy Riot...