Novel sounds : southern fiction in the age of rock and roll / Florence Dore.

• Introduction. Minstrel realism at the birth of rock -- Fugitives and futility : agrarian ballad novels in Bob Dylan's moment -- New critical noise in Music City : Thomas Pynchon's William Faulkner -- The ballad's gender : femininity and information in Georgia -- The Lead Belly thing : William Styron's records -- Coda. Nobel sounds : Bob Dylan's novel prize.

• "Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American authors native to rock's birthplace began to write fiction about the electrification of those ballads, translating into literary form key cultural changes that gave rise to the infectious music coming out of their region. In [this book], Florence Dore tells the story of how these forms of expression became intertwined and shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies--tape, radio, vinyl--to develop the 'rock novel'"--Publisher marketing. 

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Rock music in literature.  (LCSH)

American fiction  -- Southern States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Rock music  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Rock music  -- Southern States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction.  (fast)

Rock music.  (fast)

Rock music in literature.  (fast)

Rock'n'roll i litteraturen  (sao)

Rock music  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Rock'n'roll  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Southern States.  (fast)

United States.  (fast)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS261 (LCC)

813/.5409975 (DDC)