Recently added articles from Mosaic (Winnipeg):
Introduction.
Jun 01, 2009; ... For writers and publishers contending with Google settlements and electronic copyright questions, the issue of "technological reproduction" remains as current, and as in need of critical reflection, as it was when Walter Benjamin wrote "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological ...
A return to the scene of the postmodern: Ezra Pound Reading.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In the summer of 1952, Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Mantell visited St. Elizabeths Hospital in order to persuade Ezra Pound to make a spoken-word LP for their record company. Founded in March of that year, Caedmon Records specialized in recording modern poetry as the verbal content of ...
Invisible voices: archiving sound as sight in Marcel Beyer's Karnau Tapes.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Marcel Beyer's novel The Karnau Tapes begins with a voice breaking the morning silence and a parade of deaf-mutes at a Nazi rally. The narrative perspective is that of Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer charged with bringing the speeches and cries of this assembly even to the deafest ears in ...
How to have race without a body: the mass-reproduced voice and modern identity in H.D.'s "two Americans".(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... <Pre> "The Voice [ ...] functions as a strange body [ ...] which can never be pinned to a definite visual object; and this changes the whole economy of desire." --Slavoj Zizek, Enjoy Your Symptom </Pre> In 1930, H.D. privately published a short story, "Two Americans," based on her ...
Sounding off: performing ritual revolt in Olive Senior's "Meditation on Yellow".(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In "Meditation on Yellow," the introductory poem of Gardening in the Tropics, Olive Senior demonstrates the significance of voice in the staging of Afro-Caribbean rituals of revolt. Throughout the entire collection, but in that poem in particular, not only does Senior focus on women who ...
The roar of The Crowd: urban noise and anti-noise in silent cinema.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... As Jonathan Sterne notes in his history of recorded sound, "In modern life sound becomes a problem: an object to be contemplated" (9). Once an undifferentiated aspect of the human environment, man-made sound, with increasing industrialization and urbanization, increased exponentially, ...
Resonances of Echo: a Derridean allegory.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... <Pre> An allegorical metonymy [ ...] says something other than what it says and manifests the other [allos]. --Jacques Derrida, Memoires for Paul de Man Echo thus lets be heard [laisse alors entendre] by who-ever wants to hear it, by whoever might love hearing it, something other ...
Alternative vocalities: listening awry to Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... On 22 April 1969, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Pierrot Players presented a new "music theatre" work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, entitled Eight Songs for a Mad King. It was a veritable succes de scandale. Scored for male vocalist and chamber ensemble, Davies's ...
Why the Cybermen stomp: sound in the new Doctor who.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Re-designed for a new millennium, they stomped out of the fog and into your nightmares. --David Tennant, "Music and Monsters" </Pre> In the 2005 to 2006 series of the BBC television program Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the Doctor, the cyborg villains known as the ...
Limitless voice(s), intensive bodies: Henri Chopin's poetics of expansion.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Born in 1922, Henri Chopin became, as early as the 1950s, one of a handful of poets, musicians, and artists who shared an interest in the creative possibilities inspired by the recent commercial availability of tape recorders. A pioneering figure of sound poetry whose experiments and ...
Dissonant desires: Staceyann Chin and the queer politics of a Jamaican Accent.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... <Pre> Words don't go there: this implies a difference between words and sounds [ ...] an absence of inflection; a loss of mobility, slippage, bend; a missing accent or affect; the impossibility of a slur or crack and the excess-- rather than loss--of meaning they imply. --Fred Moten, ...
Saartjie's speech and the sounds of national identification.(Saartjie Baartman)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... There are two beginnings that sound this essay's themes. The first is Stephen Jay Gould's essay "The Hottentot Venus," an influential source for renewed interest in Saartjie ("Sarah" or "Sara") Baartman, which begins not with his discovery of Baartman's preserved genitalia at the Musee de ...
Musical imaginaries in Vikram Seth's an Equal Music.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Despite the spectacular rise of interdisciplinarity in literary studies, the representation of music and musicians in literature has been an under-theorized topic. Work about the relationship between music and literature has sometimes, as Stephen Benson points out, been dogged by ...