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Pynchon's Sound of Music

Hänggi, Christian. (2020) Pynchon's Sound of Music. Zürich.

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Pynchon's Sound of Music is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines — from literary studies and musicology to philosophy, media theory, and history — to explain Pynchon through music and music through Pynchon. Encyclopedic and eclectic — though never exhaustive — in its approach, Pynchon's Sound of Music discusses the author's use of instruments such as the kazoo, the harmonica, or the saxophone and embarks on close readings of the most salient and musicologically tantalizing passages. Zooming out to a bird's eye view, all his historical musical references and allusions are put into perspective to trace the trends and tendencies in the development of the oeuvre's interest in music. A treasure trove for fans and an invaluable source for future scholarship, this book includes the Pynchon Playlist, a 900+ item catalog of all musical references, and an exhaustive index of more than 700 appearances of musical instruments.
Faculties and Departments:04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Amerikanistik (Schweighauser)
UniBasel Contributors:Hänggi, Christian
Item Type:Book
Book Subtype:Authored Book
Publisher:Diaphanes
ISBN:978-3-0358-0232-0
Number of Pages:320
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Authored book
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