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Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 54, Number 1, Spring 2010 (T 205)
- pp. 14-38
- Article
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Posthumous duets—performances involving a dead singer and a living one—have become ubiquitous in popular music. As the case of Natalie and Nat “King” Cole’s “Unforgettable” makes clear, all sound recording harnesses the productive capacities of both living and dead, patterned through specific forms of co-laboring, or “deadness.”