Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism

Book published by Salt Publishing (2005)

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa’s art, this book traces the mixed ... [more ▼]

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa’s art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping out the pleasures of imaginative excess. [less ▲]

Absorption, Sound and Orality

in Dierickx, Jelle (Ed.) On the Sounds and Images of Contemporary Poetry: An American Connection (2005)

Hamlet : réflexions sur la modernité d’un mythe

Scientific conference (2004, October 23)

Le troisième corps

Book published by Le Fram (2004)

The Literature of Terror

Learning material (2004)

Nikki Santilli, Such Rare Citings

in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics (2004)

Soup 'n Old Clothes : Frank Zappa’s Peristaltic Poetics

in Oficina de poesia: Revista de palavra e da imagem (2004)

From Fantômas to the Dice Cup

in Baetens, Jan (Ed.) La novellisation : du film au roman (2004)

American Modernism in Transition

Conference (2003, October 17)

Sound as Sense: Contemporary Us Poetry &/In Music

Book published by P.I.E./Peter Lang (2003)

It has often been claimed that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. The general distrust of methods that combine or aggregate knowledge from different research fields, and therefore ... [more ▼]

It has often been claimed that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. The general distrust of methods that combine or aggregate knowledge from different research fields, and therefore tend to elide or smooth out some of their particularities, may account for the paucity of critical writing dealing not only with the role of voice and song in poetry but also with the history of the interdependencies of verbal, textual and musical materials in the broader context of contemporary American literature. The purpose of this book is to develop an informed and imaginative understanding of the interrelationships between poetry and music in a way that reflects the diversity and richness of contemporary artistic practice in the US since the beginning of the 20th century. Related topics such as theories of representation, the aesthetics of rhythm, the material production of literature and music, the links between poetry, politics and popular culture, the making of music from literary texts,or literature from musical models, all provide the focus for a study that deals with the theoretical and practical interrelationships between poetry and music. [less ▲]