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Lädt ... The Untold Story of the Talking Bookvon Matthew Rubery
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. En breve la reseña en mi blog. ( ) Really interesting though a bit repetitive history of the audiobook, mostly in the US and secondarily in Britain. I hadn’t thought about the history of technology as a history of disability at the same time, but that was my error. Rubery recounts the ways in which audiobooks were both touted as making books available to those who couldn’t read print (especially those who lost sight late in life and hadn’t learned Braille) and also condemned as being less than real reading, reflecting serious debates in the print-disabled community and equally serious demand for reading material. Questions of censorship were also significant, as governmental institutions strove to avoid controversy and provide “uplifting” material, while blind readers themselves wanted access to the books their friends and family were reading, however “pornographic.” (This puts audiofic in a new context for me.) There were also recurring debates about what the narrator should be like—mechanical (so as to more nearly replicate the experience of meeting the text on one’s own, without interpretation), varying voices by character/speaker, sharing the author or narrator’s sex/race/etc. characteristics, and so on. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison’s recitation of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for his tinfoil phonograph in 1877, to the first novel-length talking books made for blinded World War I veterans, to today’s billion-dollar audiobook industry. The Untold Story of the Talking Book focuses on the social impact of audiobooks, not just the technological history, in telling a story of surprising and impassioned conflicts: from controversies over which books the Library of Congress selected to become talking books—yes to Kipling, no to Flaubert—to debates about what defines a reader. Delving into the vexed relationship between spoken and printed texts, Rubery argues that storytelling can be just as engaging with the ears as with the eyes, and that audiobooks deserve to be taken seriously. They are not mere derivatives of printed books but their own form of entertainment. We have come a long way from the era of sound recorded on wax cylinders, when people imagined one day hearing entire novels on mini-phonographs tucked inside their hats. Rubery tells the untold story of this incredible evolution and, in doing so, breaks from convention by treating audiobooks as a distinctively modern art form that has profoundly influenced the way we read. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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