A Most Valuable Medium
The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 14 March 2023
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780253065186
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b&w photos - 10 Halftones, black and white Halftones, black & white 496
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Long description:
Between 1895 and 1920, the United States saw a sharp increase in commercial sound recording, the first mass medium of home entertainment.
As companies sought to discover what kinds of records would appeal to consumers, they turned to performance forms already familiar to contemporary audiences?sales pitches, oratory, sermons, and stories. In A Most Valuable Medium, Richard Bauman explores the practical problems that producers and performers confronted when adapting familiar oral genres to this innovative medium of sound recording. He also examines how audiences responded to these modified and commoditized presentations.
Featuring audio examples throughout and offering a novel look at the early history of sound recording, A Most Valuable Medium reveals how this new technology effected monumental change in the ways we receive information.
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Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Listen to the Records
1. Introduction: ""A Most Valuable Medium""
2. ""Come in Here and Hear Them Speak!"": Campaign Speeches and Political Publics, with Patrick Feaster
3. ""Accordin' to the Gospel of Etymology"": Aural Blackface and New African American Poetics
4. ""We Always Enjoy a Good Story"": From Monologue to Audio Theater
5. ""Talking Machine Story Teller"": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling
6. ""Somebody Stole My Tune!"": Charles Ross Taggart and Country Communicability
7. ""I Don't See No Mans"": Bridging the Schizophonic Gap
Discography, by Patrick Feaster
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Index
