Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with
the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field
research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based
surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as
a technique for separating bodies from sounds, but this book
listens closely to tape's embedded information, offering a
counterintuitive site-specific account of 1960s poetic recordings.
Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Larry Eigner, and Amiri Baraka all
used recording to contest models of time being put forward by
dominant media and the state, exploring non-monumental time and
subverting media schedules of work, consumption, leisure, and
national crises. Surprisingly, their methods at once dovetailed
with those of the state collecting evidence against them and ran up
against the same technological limits. Arguing that CIA and FBI
"researchers" shared unexpected terrain not only with poets but
with famous theorists such as Fredric Jameson and Hayden White,
Lytle Shaw reframes the status of tape recordings in postwar
poetics and challenges notions of how tape might be understood as a
mode of evidence.
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