Former coordinator of the RTG „Practicing Place“ Ulla Stackmann published her thesis on „Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry. Practices, Configurations, and Contexts of Poetry on Sound Carriers (c. 1950s—1980s)“ in the Brill series „DQR Studies in Literature“. We are pleased to share that Ulla Stackmann will publish her forthcoming book, Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry, with Brill.
The book explores the performative and auditory dimensions of postwar American audiopoetry, offering fresh insights into the intersections of sound, text, and performance. 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.
See the publication and more information at the publisher’s website.
Congratulations to this final step in the process and her first book!
