Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative

by Jarmila Mildorf (Editor), Till Kinzel (Editor)

Overview

Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on sound studies and transmedial narratology, audionarratology combines concepts from both while also offering fresh insights. Sound studies investigate sound in its various manifestations from disciplinary angles as varied as anthropology, history, sociology, acoustics, articulatory phonetics, musicology or sound psychology. Still, a specifically narrative focus is often missing. Narratology has broadened its scope to look at narratives from transdisciplinary and transmedial perspectives. However, there is a bias towards visual or audio-visual media such as comics and graphic novels, film, TV, hyperfiction and pictorial art. The aim of this book is to foreground the oral and aural sides of storytelling, asking how sound, voice and music support narrative structure or even assume narrative functions in their own right. It brings together cutting-edge research on forms of sound narration hitherto neglected in narratology: radio plays, audiobooks, audio guides, mobile phone theatre, performance poetry, concept albums, digital stories, computer games, songs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110472257
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/25/2016
Series:	Narratologia , #52
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	275
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jarmila Mildorf, Universität Paderborn, Germany; Till Kinzel, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments v

Audionarratology: Prolegomena to a Research Paradigm Exploring Sound and Narrative Jarmila Mildorf Till Kinzel 1

Music and Storytelling

Music in Multimodal Narratives: The Role of the Soundtrack in Digital Stories M. Dolores Porto Requejo 29

Staging the Ghost Blend in Two Versions of the Ballad "Big Joe and Phantom 309" M. Ángeles Martínez 47

"Put the Heart Into itl": Narrative in Country Music and the Blues Alan Palmer 65

Animae Partus: Conceptual Mythopoeisis, Progressive Rock, and the Many Voices of Pain of Salvation's BE Markus Wierschem 79

Sound Art

A Narratology of Audio Art: Telling Stories by Sound Elke Huwiler 99

A Narratology of Radio Drama: Voice, Perspective, Space Bartosz Lutostanskl 117

Voice and Sound in the Anti-Narrative Radio Play Lars Bernaerts 133

Disappearing Sounds: Poetry, Noise and Narrative Zoë Skoulding 149

Aural Energies in Rimini Protokoll's Call Cutta: Sound, Documentary, Performance and Narrate logical Aspects of "The World's First Mobile Phone Theatre" Thijs Festjens 165

Sound, Narrative and Immersion

Hearing Storyworlds: How Video Games Use Sound to Convey Narrative Sebastian Domsch 185

Voicing the Split Narrator: Readers' Chores in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" Ivan Delazari 199

Audiobooks and Print Narrative: Similarities in Text Experience Anezka Kuzmicová 217

Pictures into Sound: Aural World-Making in Art Gallery Audio Guides Jarmila Mildorf 239

Notes on Contributors 257

Index 261

Editorial Reviews

"[...] engagingly written volume [...]"
Rolf J. Goebel in: Monatshefte, Vol. 110, No. 2, 2018, 262-264

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