A Most Valuable Medium

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253065179
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 621.389309
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Weight: 476g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm