[Linganth] tomorrow - CaMP virtual reading group

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

The CaMP virtual reading group will be chatting with Dick Bauman
tomorrow, discussing
his book,  *A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on
Early Commercial Recordings*.


We are reading the introduction and conclusion.  Please read as much as you
can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read
everything.


PLEASE NOTE:  The reading group now meets from *12-1 pm*

on the last Friday of the month.



The readings can be found here:


Introduction:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d3MFcNmYGl7_5n_RYkjb-vxqM6swNy2Y/view?usp=share_link


Chapter 6:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TqpOZbfSubI1n3H3MFq3Hkp2jgWqX9s-/view?usp=share_link



The meeting will be *12-1 pm*  EST on October 28th, and can be reached by
clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana



Press blurb:

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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