A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Listen to the Records -- Introduction: "A Most Valuable Medium -- 1. "Come in Here and Hear Them Speak!": Campaign Speeches and Political Publics (with Patrick Feaster) -- 2. "Accordin' to the Gospel of Etymology": Aural Blackface and New African American Poetics -- 3. "We Always Enjoy a Good Story": From Monologue to Audio Theater -- 4. "Talking Machine Storyteller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of Storytelling -- 5. "Somebody Stole My Tune!": Charles Ross Taggart and Country Communicability -- 6. "I Don't See No Mans": Bridging the Schizophonic Gap -- Discography (by Patrick Feaster) -- References -- Index -- About the Author.