Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science: Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of RhythmColumbia University Press, 2008 - 272 pages In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area and situates it in the society, politics, and culture of the Modernist period. He then filters selected Modernist poems through this archive to demonstrate that innovations in prosody, form, and subject matter are based on a largely forgotten ideology of rhythm and that beneath Modernist prosody is a science and an accompanying technology. |
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... song usurp his musical fancy in exactly the same way as the instinctive possession of the strains and rhythms of our folk song and dance made out the virtual shap- ing force of the creators of our art music . " The Jew " merely listens ...
... song , or " music + words " ; and then into various grades of poetry , the first more overtly mel- opoeic , in which the terms of " song " are simply reversed ( words + music ) , and finally into poetry in which the music is merely ...
... song “ out of ” —as Pound says in Guide to Kulchur - bird song , which the Renaissance composer Clement Janequin reset as a choral motet ; da Milano , a contemporary of Janequin's in turn reset it for solo performance - this time on ...
Contents
Phonoscopic Modernism | 1 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 2 |
Ezra Pounds Absolutist Rhythms | 59 |
Copyright | |
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