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Kaleidophonic Modernity - Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature (Paperback)
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Kaleidophonic Modernity - Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature (Paperback)
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What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant
inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity
reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology
by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in
France and the United States. Working between comparative
literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds
a bridge between visual culture and sound studies. Kaleidophonic
Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover,
the celebrated concert pianist and salonniere Nina de Villard at
the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's
scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to
telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his
poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His
literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to
predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For
nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely
daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary,
artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the
artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret.
Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and
Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles
Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now
be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a
compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes. In elaborating
this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates
the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the
aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary
exchange, Poe's aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of
modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual
experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the
sound art of today.
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