LEADER 03569nam 22005175 450 001 9910150218303321 005 20170310101934.0 010 $a0-674-97453-0 010 $a0-674-97455-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674974555 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4742340 035 $a(DE-B1597)479805 035 $a(OCoLC)984687357 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674974555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7186199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7186199 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942223 100 $a20170310d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Untold Story of the Talking Book /$fMatthew Rubery 210 1$aCambridge, MA : $cHarvard University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (380 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-54544-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: What Is the History of Audiobooks? -- $tPart I. The Phonographic Library -- $t1. Canned Literature -- $tPart II. Blindness, Disability, and Talking Book Records -- $t2. A Talking Book in Every Corner of Dark- Land -- $t3. How to Read a Talking Book -- $t4. A Free Press for the Blind -- $t5. From Shell Shock to Shellac -- $t6. Unrecordable -- $tPart III. Audiobooks on and off the Road -- $t7. Caedmon?s Third Dimension -- $t8. Tapeworms -- $t9. Audio Revolution -- $tAfterword: Speed Listening -- $tNotes -- $tCredits -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aHistories 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. 606 $aAudiobooks$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and technology$xHistory 606 $aTalking books$xHistory 615 0$aAudiobooks$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and technology$xHistory. 615 0$aTalking books$xHistory. 676 $a002.09 700 $aRubery$b Matthew.$01243150 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150218303321 996 $aThe Untold Story of the Talking Book$92889744 997 $aUNINA