Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and Acknowledgments v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Audionarratology: Prolegomena to a Research Paradigm Exploring Sound and Narrative 1
5. Music and Storytelling
6. Music in Multimodal Narratives: The Role of the Soundtrack in Digital Stories 29
7. Staging the Ghost Blend in Two Versions of the Ballad “Big Joe and Phantom 309” 47
8. “Put the Heart Into it!”: Narrative in Country Music and the Blues 65
9. Animae Partus: Conceptual Mythopoeisis, Progressive Rock, and the Many Voices of Pain of Salvation’s BE 79
10. Sound Art
11. A Narratology of Audio Art: Telling Stories by Sound 99
12. A Narratology of Radio Drama: Voice, Perspective, Space 117
13. Voice and Sound in the Anti-Narrative Radio Play 133
14. Disappearing Sounds: Poetry, Noise and Narrative 149
15. Aural Energies in Rimini Protokoll’s Call Cutta: Sound, Documentary, Performance and Narratological Aspects of “The World’s First Mobile Phone Theatre” 165
16. Sound, Narrative and Immersion
17. Hearing Storyworlds: How Video Games Use Sound to Convey Narrative 185
18. Voicing the Split Narrator: Readers’ Chores in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” 199
19. Audiobooks and Print Narrative: Similarities in Text Experience 217
20. Pictures into Sound: Aural World-Making in Art Gallery Audio Guides 239
21. Notes on Contributors 257
22. Index 261