Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. The Performativity of Voice and Sound in Theatre 9
6. Avant-garde and Postmodern Conceptions of Aurality 24
7. Sound Poetry and Bruitist Performance: Words-in-Freedom 57
8. Zaum: From a “Beyonsense” Language to an Idiom of Theatre 85
9. The Dramaturgy of Sound: From Futurist Serate to Sintesi 114
10. Sound as Structure: Toward an Aural Architecture of Theatre 145
11. The Avant-garde Dramaturgy of Sound 179
12. Epilogue 206
13. Notes 209
14. Bibliography 233
15. Index 245