[Linganth] Dick Bauman on CaMP anthropology blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Dick Bauman answers questions about his book, A Most
Valuable Medium.   He will be the featured author in the CaMP virtual
reading group in two days -- please attend if this interview interests you.

campanthropology.org

Best,
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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