Overview
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.
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Author: Dr. Erich Hertz , Dr. Jeffrey Roessner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781623564223
ISBN 10: 1623564220
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 17 July 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
"Introduction Erich Hertz and Jeffrey Roessner Part 1: Negotiating Pop Styles 1. More Than Zero: Post-Punk Ideology (And Its Rejection) in Bret Easton Ellis Matthew Luter, Faculty Member, Webb School, USA 2. ""Consistently Original, Perennially Unheard Of"": Punk, Margin and Mainstream in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Mark Bresnan, Assistant Professor of Academic Writing, Marymount Manhattan College, USA 3. A Novel Idea for a Soundtrack: Tim Winton’s Dirt Music Tanya Dalziell, Professor in English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia 4. ""Where the Beat Sounds the Same"": American Psycho and the Cultural Capital of Pop Music Carl Miller, Assistant Professor of English, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA 5. Playing (in) Seattle: Grunge as a Narrative Soundscape in Mark Lindquist’s Never Mind Nirvana Fiorenzo Iuliano, Lecturer in American Literature, University of Cagliari, Italy Part 2: Gendering Rock and Jazz 6. Masculinity and Jazz in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet, Jim Crace’s All That Follows and Alan Plater’s The Beiderbecke Trilogy Aidan Byrne, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK Nicola Allen, University of Wolverhampton, UK 7. Queer Time, Queer Space, and Queer Edge in Lynn Breedlove’s Godspeed Joseph P. Fisher, George Washington's College of Professional Studies and North Virginia Community College, Alexandria, USA 8. The Popular Music Experiments of Rick Moody's Connecticut WASPs in The Ice Storm Zachary Snider, Writer, USA 9. “Every song ends”: Musical Pauses, Gendered Nostalgia, and Loss in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad Danica van de Velde, University of Western Australia, Australia Part 3: Sounding Race and Nation 10. “It’s me or the . . . Eggplant”: Pleasure, Politics, and Prince in Hanif Kureishi’sThe Black Album Eric Berlatsky, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, USA 11. Rock Music as Cosmopolitan Touchstone in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet Tim Gauthier, Director of the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA 12. Music Consumption and the Remix of Self in Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor John Joseph Hess, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature, Florida Atlantic University, USA 13. Static Signals: Celia Cruz, Santería and Markets of Latinidad in Jennine Capó Crucet’s How to Leave Hialeah Elena Machado Sáez, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, USA Part 4: Making Pop Art 14. Incommensurate Nostalgias: Changin' Times in Watchmen Benjamin J. Robertson, Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder 15. “To see the world in a liner note”: The Limits of Song in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude Christopher González, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Commerce, USA 16. Unrest and Silence: The Faithless Music of the Contemporary British Novel Will May, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK 17. The Rock Star's Responsibility: Privacy, Industry, and Artistry in Novels by DeLillo, Lethem, and Franzen D. Quentin Miller, Professor of English, Suffolk University, UK Contributor Biographies Music in Contemporary Fiction: Selected Bibliography Index"
Reviews
Write in Tune is an invaluable assemblage of what the editors rightly call the stunning range of recent novels by major figures-including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie-that reference contemporary music. The rock novel was once among the weakest of genres; this collection, at once accessible and sophisticated, is a major contribution in consolidating the array of writers who have elevated the genre into the highest precincts of literature. The excitement offered by Write in Tune gives one hope that the decline in the number of English majors might be reversed-I'll certainly be constructing a course out of it. Neil Nehring, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and author of Flowers in the Dustbin: Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England Write in Tune arrives at just the right time-as the rock novel has attained its maturity, and demands respect on its own terms-and demands as well its own forms of attention. The broad spectrum of essays included here, and the wide range of their approaches, provides a wealth of strategies for those of us who love this fiction. -- Kevin J.H. Dettmar, W.M. Keck Professor and Chair of English, Pomona College, USA
Write in Tune is an invaluable assemblage of what the editors rightly call the stunning range of recent novels by major figures-including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie-that reference contemporary music. The rock novel was once among the weakest of genres; this collection, at once accessible and sophisticated, is a major contribution in consolidating the array of writers who have elevated the genre into the highest precincts of literature. The excitement offered by Write in Tune gives one hope that the decline in the number of English majors might be reversed-I'll certainly be constructing a course out of it. Neil Nehring, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and author of Flowers in the Dustbin: Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England Write in Tune arrives at just the right time-as the rock novel has attained its maturity, and demands respect on its own terms-and demands as well its own forms of attention. The broad spectrum of essays included here, and the wide range of their approaches, provides a wealth of strategies for those of us who love this fiction. -- Kevin J.H. Dettmar, W.M. Keck Professor and Chair of English, Pomona College, USA Neither the novel nor pop music is dead, and they are experiencing a symbiotic relationship as evidenced in these 17 essays, which take up punk, grunge, jazz, rock, R and B, and Hispanic music, and the close relationship that has developed during the past 60 years between people, music, and a new genre--the rock novel [.] Write in Tune sets the stage and offers compelling evidence as to why the rock novel and the musical influences it encompasses should have a place in the literary canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- T. Emery, Austin Peay State University CHOICE
Write in Tune is an invaluable assemblage of what the editors rightly call the stunning range of recent novels by major figures-including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie-that reference contemporary music. The rock novel was once among the weakest of genres; this collection, at once accessible and sophisticated, is a major contribution in consolidating the array of writers who have elevated the genre into the highest precincts of literature. The excitement offered by Write in Tune gives one hope that the decline in the number of English majors might be reversed-I'll certainly be constructing a course out of it. Neil Nehring, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and author of Flowers in the Dustbin: Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England Write in Tune arrives at just the right time-as the rock novel has attained its maturity, and demands respect on its own terms-and demands as well its own forms of attention. The broad spectrum of essays included here, and the wide range of their approaches, provides a wealth of strategies for those of us who love this fiction. -- Kevin J.H. Dettmar, W.M. Keck Professor and Chair of English, Pomona College, USA Neither the novel nor pop music is dead, and they are experiencing a symbiotic relationship as evidenced in these 17 essays, which take up punk, grunge, jazz, rock, R and B, and Hispanic music, and the close relationship that has developed during the past 60 years between people, music, and a new genre--the rock novel [...] Write in Tune sets the stage and offers compelling evidence as to why the rock novel and the musical influences it encompasses should have a place in the literary canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- T. Emery, Austin Peay State University CHOICE
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Erich Hertz is Associate Professor of English at Siena College, USA. Jeffrey Roessner is Full Professor of English and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Mercyhurst University, USA.
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