Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry: Practices, Configurations, and Contexts of Poetry on Sound Carriers (C. 1950s--1980s) - Hardcover

by Ulla Stackmann (Author)

As the first study of its kind, this book explores the publication of poetry on sound carriers in the US postwar era from an aesthetic as well as an historical point of view. Combining approaches from media and literary studies, it explains why labels and individuals like Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, or John Giorno straddled the lines between music, poetry, and visual arts using audio recording and playing devices. It sheds light on the sonic imaginaries that commercial and avant-gardist recording projects sought to mobilize and sometimes also unwittingly reproduced in this context.

Author Biography

Ulla Stackmann is coordinator of the Research Training Group "Practicing Place" at the University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research interests include media theory and US poetry. She is the co-editor of Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies (2025). Ulla Stackmann is a scholar and translator. She has received her PhD from the Catholic University-Eichstätt Ingolstadt in American Studies. As a scholar, she has authored multiple articles investigating mid-century US literature, feminist approaches to literature, and the relationship between practice theory and literary studies. She is the co-editor of Practicing and Placing Imaginaries (transcript, 2025). Additionally, she has translated Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women into German (&Töchter, 2023).