A Most Valuable Medium : The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings

Bauman, Richard

Indiana University Press（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253065179
• DDC分類 621.389309

Full 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.

Contents

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
References
Index