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Wilson, Robert P.

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American resonance: Soundscapes of the American Renaissance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American resonance: Soundscapes of the American Renaissance./
Author:	Wilson, Robert P.
Description:	388 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10134300
ISBN:	9781339927947

American resonance: Soundscapes of the American Renaissance.
Wilson, Robert P.

American resonance: Soundscapes of the American Renaissance. - 388 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2016.

"American Resonance" attends to soundscapes in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. The project engages literary criticism, post-nationalist American studies, and sound studies. It argues that these texts offer listening and sounding out as productive sites for historical memory, the construction of meaning and identity, creative expression and cultural critique, the formation of social arrangements, and political action.

ISBN: 9781339927947Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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520 $a Though the study focuses on canonical writers, it asks how their corpora work against the assumptions through which they have been canonized. It demonstrates how these texts employ sound as a means of engaging in dialogues with cultural and political traditions sometimes occluded in scholarship. The dissertation emphasizes not only listening practices but cross-cultural exchange---specifically, the influence of Native American cultures, Italian opera, and African American music on Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, respectively.
520 $a The introduction assesses normative constructions of early American soundscapes with regard to pressing sociopolitical concerns. The first chapter draws on Thoreau's books, essays, and journals to suggest that Thoreau's ontology of the listening self challenges the ocularcentrism of western thought. It argues that Thoreau's commitments to environmentalism and political reform stem from what he took to be the ontological disposition of "the Indian" (as constructed by savagism), and that sensitive listening practices constituted the exemplary means by which to take up this disposition.
520 $a The second chapter analyzes the effects of Whitman's deep reverence for opera on his poetry and politics. It argues that Whitman attempts to democratize reading by infusing poetry with the "vocalism" of opera and situating readers as "philosopher musicians." It concludes by asserting that this project was hamstrung by Whitman's focus on a Eurocentric form and failure to account for African American folk musical forms, which more fully demonstrate the democratic ethos Whitman sought to encompass in his poetry.
520 $a The third chapter makes a case for Melville's debts to African American musical traditions Whitman overlooked. It argues that the two works said to bookend Melville's literary "silence"---Pierre and Billy Budd---draw on traits of African American musical expression. It asserts that these books appropriate forms of black resistance in order to level a range of critiques at the imperial inflections of American exceptionalism at home and abroad.
520 $a The conclusion meditates on translating the listening and sounding practices drawn out in the body chapters into effective political praxis in the present globalized occasion.
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