Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative

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Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. This is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research on audio art and 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. Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Audionarratology: Prolegomena to a Research Paradigm Exploring Sound and Narrative Music and Storytelling Music in Multimodal Narratives: The Role of the Soundtrack in Digital Stories Staging the Ghost Blend in Two Versions of the Ballad “Big Joe and Phantom 309” “Put the Heart Into it!”: Narrative in Country Music and the Blues Animae Partus: Conceptual Mythopoeisis, Progressive Rock, and the Many Voices of Pain of Salvation’s BE Sound Art A Narratology of Audio Art: Telling Stories by Sound A Narratology of Radio Drama: Voice, Perspective, Space Voice and Sound in the Anti-Narrative Radio Play Disappearing Sounds: Poetry, Noise and Narrative Aural Energies in Rimini Protokoll’s Call Cutta: Sound, Documentary, Performance and Narratological Aspects of “The World’s First Mobile Phone Theatre” Sound, Narrative and Immersion Hearing Storyworlds: How Video Games Use Sound to Convey Narrative Voicing the Split Narrator: Readers’ Chores in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” Audiobooks and Print Narrative: Similarities in Text Experience Pictures into Sound: Aural World-Making in Art Gallery Audio Guides Notes on Contributors Index