[Linganth] Dick Bauman visits the CaMP virtual reading group

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

The CaMP virtual reading group will be chatting with Dick Baumanon 
Friday, April 28th,

  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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