 | Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll Subjects: Rock music in literature; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Rock music -- Social aspects -- United States; Rock music -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies--tape, radio, vinyl--to develop the "rock novel." Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature. Florence Dore is professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism (2005). Her rock album Perfect City was released on Slewfoot Records (2001) . |
