1st Edition
The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship Intermedia, Voice, Technology, Cross-Cultural Exchange
Introduction: The Literature-Music Relationship: Past, Present and Future 1. Musical Imaginaries, Disability and the Real in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music 2. Glocal Imaginaries and Musical Displacements in Richard Powers’s The Time of Our Singing 3. Voice, Improvisation, Cross-culturality 4. The Rhythm of Living: Kurt Elling’s songtalk 5. The Voice in Computer Music and its Relationship to Place, Identity and Community 6. New Media Miscegenations: Sound and Screen Synergies in New Media Writing Coda
Biography
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
"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 explores. This book is an excellent and valuable volume and an important contribution to studies of music and literature."
- Christopher Hill, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
