Book Review| December 01 2019 Review: Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore Florence Dore. Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 200 pp. Thomas Austin Graham Thomas Austin Graham Columbia University Email: tag2133@columbia.edu Thomas Austin Graham is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Great American Songbooks, a musicological study of modernist fiction and poetry published by Oxford UP in 2013. His recent essays include studies of The Rite of Spring, the “Jazz Age” concept, and the historicization of popular song. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2019) 31 (4): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2019.31.4.177 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thomas Austin Graham; Review: Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 December 2019; 31 (4): 177–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2019.31.4.177 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search What is a rock novel? The simplest way to go about answering this question is to turn to novels that feature rock musicians as protagonists (like Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street), or that are accompanied by rock soundtracks (like Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49), or that engage the form in other, similarly explicit manners. The more challenging way is the one that Florence Dore has chosen in Novel Sounds, her study of Southern fiction in the years of rock's advent. For Dore, rock is not simply a music: it's also a sensibility, one that has a great deal to do with sounds and rhythms and lyrics... © 2019 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions.2019 You do not currently have access to this content.