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005			20240726105032.0
008			161208t20162016maua ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aZ286 _b.U586 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aRubery, Matthew, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe untold story of the talking book /Matthew Rubery.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (369 pages) : _billustrations
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"This work is the first history of recorded literature since Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. It traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commercial audiobooks heard today. Addressing the vexed relationship between orality and print, the author shows how talking books developed both as a way of reproducing printed books and as a way of overcoming their limitations. In a wide-ranging overview, he charts the talking book's evolution across numerous media (records, tapes, discs, digital files), its reception by a bemused public, and impassioned disputes over its legitimacy. Testimonials drawn from the archives of charities for war-blinded veterans and pioneering audio publishers including Caedmon, Books on Tape, and Audible vividly recreate how audiences over the past century have responded to literature read out loud. This book poses a series of conceptual questions too: What exactly is the relationship between spoken and printed texts? How does the experience of listening to books compare to that of reading them? What influence does a book's narrator have over its reception? What methods of close listening are appropriate to such narratives? What new formal possibilities are opened up by sound recording? Sound technology turns out to be every bit as important as screens to the book's ongoing transformation. In sum, this book breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctive art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read."-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aWhat is the history of audiobooks? -- _tThe phonographic library. Canned literature -- _tBlindness, disability, and talking book records. A talking book in every corner of dark-land ; How to read a talking book ; A free press for the blind ; From shell shock to shellac ; Unrecordable -- _tAudiobooks on and off the road. Caedmon's third dimension ; Tapeworms ; Audio revolution -- _tAfterword : speed listening.
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650		0	_aAudiobooks _xHistory.
650		0	_aLiterature and technology _xHistory.
650		0	_aTalking books _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1416420&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell