The Untold Story of the Talking Book /

The Untold Story of the Talking Book / / Matthew Rubery.

Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison’s recitation of “Mary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Rubery, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 39 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: What Is the History of Audiobooks?
  • Part I. The Phonographic Library
  • 1. Canned Literature
  • Part II. Blindness, Disability, and Talking Book Records
  • 2. A Talking Book in Every Corner of Dark- Land
  • 3. How to Read a Talking Book
  • 4. A Free Press for the Blind
  • 5. From Shell Shock to Shellac
  • 6. Unrecordable
  • Part III. Audiobooks on and off the Road
  • 7. Caedmon’s Third Dimension
  • 8. Tapeworms
  • 9. Audio Revolution
  • Afterword: Speed Listening
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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