A Most Valuable Medium : The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings / Richard Bauman ; with Patrick Feaster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Richard, 1940- author.

Contributor:

Feaster, Patrick, 1971- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral communication.

Sound--Recording and reproducing.

Sound.

Sound recordings--Production and direction.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. "Come in Here and Hear Them Speak!": Campaign Speeches and Political Publics (with Patrick Feaster)

2. "Accordin' to the Gospel of Etymology": Aural Blackface and New African American Poetics

3. "We Always Enjoy a Good Story": From Monologue to Audio Theater

4. "Talking Machine Storyteller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling

5. "Somebody Stole My Tune!": Charles Ross Taggart and Country Communicability

6. "I Don't See No Mans": Bridging the Schizophonic Gap

Discography (by Patrick Feaster)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bauman, Richard A Most Valuable Medium

ISBN:

9780253065209

0253065208

9780253065193

0253065194

OCLC:

1351197181