The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 199 - Jeremy Braddock and the Firesign Theater

Jeremy Braddock is Professor of Literatures in English. His primary field is modernist literature and culture, particularly its production and reception in the United States. His research and teaching interests include media and sound studies, African American literature, and the history of material texts. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from New York University, and a BA from Middlebury College. Before coming to Cornell, Jeremy taught at Haverford College and Princeton University. He has been a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and at the Cornell Society for the Humanities.

Braddock’s scholarly writing has been interested in collaboration and artistic groups, in literature’s intermedial engagements, and in the social investments of cultural production. His first monograph, Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012), examines a series of private art collections, literary anthologies, and archives, each of which proposed a possible model for modernism’s institutionalization in the U.S. Collecting as Modernist Practice was awarded the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His most recent book is a study of the late sixties media collective, the Firesign Theatre. With chapters on Firesign’s experiments with LP albums, radio, cinema, television, and artificial intelligence, the book reveals the group’s work as a late modernist, countercultural media archaeology. Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums is publis…Read More