Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction
Erich Hertz, Jeffrey Roessner (editors)
Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction. With essays from an array of international scholars, the collection focuses on how writers weave rock, punk, and jazz into their narratives, both to develop characters and themes and to investigate various fan and celebrity cultures surrounding contemporary music. Write in Tune covers major writers from America and England, including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, and Jim Crace. But it also explores how popular music culture is reflected in postcolonial, Latino, and Australian fiction. Ultimately, the book brings critical awareness to the power of music in shaping contemporary culture, and offers new perspectives on central issues of gender, race, and national identity.
Ano:
2014
Editora:
Bloomsbury Academic
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
1628926961
ISBN 13:
9781628926965
Arquivo:
PDF, 3.80 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014