Novel Sounds Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll
epub | 2.48 MB | English | Author :Florence Dore | B078CXF19M | 2018 | Columbia University Press

Book Description :

The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. 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 Novel Sounds, Florence Dore tells the story of how these forms of expression became intertwined and sho how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies-tape, radio, vinyl-to develop the "rock novel."
Dore considers the work of Southern writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and Southern literature. Along with rock pioneers, Southern authors drew...

Category : | 20th Century Literary Criticism, Regional American Literature Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism