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chatting with Dick Bauman</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> on Friday, April 28th</span><span
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Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">,</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> discussing his book, <i>A
Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance
on Early Commercial Recordings</i>. </span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">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.<br>
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Roman",serif">PLEASE NOTE: The reading group now meets
from <b>12-1 pm</b></span></p>
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readings can be found here:</p>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d3MFcNmYGl7_5n_RYkjb-vxqM6swNy2Y/view?usp=share_link</a><br>
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6: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">The meeting will be <b>12-1 pm</b> EST on
October 28th, and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br>
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data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698&source=gmail&ust=1665838777887000&usg=AOvVaw39RETb-NgAZkDi7IYgj1B-"
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255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box;">Between 1895 and 1920, the United States saw a
sharp increase in commercial sound recording, the first mass
medium of home entertainment.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color:
rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.6; font-family:
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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<span> </span><em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Most Valuable Medium</em>,
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.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color:
rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 1.6; font-family:
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Featuring audio examples
throughout and offering a novel look at the early history of sound
recording,<span> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Most
Valuable Medium</em><span> </span>reveals how this new
technology effected monumental change in the ways we receive
information.</p>
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