Most Valuable Medium

The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvRichard Bauman

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor238
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253065179

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Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Folklore, and of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He is author most recently of A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality and (with Charles L. Briggs) of Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality. He is editor (with Patricia Sawin and Inta Gale Carpenter) of Reflections on the Folklife Festival: An Ethnography of Participant Experience.Patrick Feaster is Cofounder and Lead Researcher at First Sounds Initiative and former Media Preservation Specialist for Indiana University's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative. He is a specialist in the history, culture, and preservation of early sound media and a three-time Grammy nominee.

AcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionListen to the Records1. Introduction: "A Most Valuable Medium"2. "Come in Here and Hear Them Speak!": Campaign Speeches and Political Publics, with Patrick Feaster3. "Accordin' to the Gospel of Etymology": Aural Blackface and New African American Poetics4. "We Always Enjoy a Good Story": From Monologue to Audio Theater5. "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling6. "Somebody Stole My Tune!": Charles Ross Taggart and Country Communicability7. "I Don't See No Mans": Bridging the Schizophonic GapDiscography, by Patrick FeasterReferencesIndex

Bauman is a master of his craft. A Most Valuable Medium enables us to benefit from his vast accumulated knowledge and insights as he explores the early world of phonographic recordings of spoken genres, from street-corner sales pitches to country store tall tales. His is a decidedly important contribution to understanding the rise of broadcasting, which has been widely assumed to begin with the advent of radio in 1920. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of the discourse processes of decontextualization and circulation that are central to the constitution and maintenance of modern public spheres.- Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania This spirited and well-researched book is a must-read for many audiences, including scholars and students of media history, media anthropology, and sound studies; linguistic anthropologists, folklorists, and ethnographers of performance; and Americanists and historians of various stripes.- Michael Lempert - University of Michigan (Journal of Folklore Research Reviews) Bauman's status as eminent anthropologist and author of books on cross-cultural intertextuality and language ideologies situates his discussions within a broader world of inquiry and his mechanisms for analyzing the behaviors of history feel current and intellectually rigorous, an obvious outcome of experience.- Andrew Justice - University of Southern California (Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal)