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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.

Audiobooks --- Literature and technology --- Talking books --- Blind --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Audio books --- Books, Cassette --- Books, Recorded --- Books on tape --- Cassette books --- Recorded books --- Sound recordings --- History. --- Books and reading --- Book history --- Sociology of literature --- audiobooks --- book history --- Audiobooks. --- Hörbuch. --- Literatur. --- Literature and technology. --- Talking books. --- Technischer Fortschritt. --- Technologie. --- Vertonung. --- Livres audio --- Littérature et technique --- Histoire.

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Das Hörbuch hat in den letzten Jahren an Beliebtheit und Bedeutung gewonnen. Es ist kaum mehr aus Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen wegzudenken - und zunehmend zeigt sich auch die Forschung interessiert. Gleichzeitig herrscht noch erheblicher Konturierungsbedarf: Wie die Wortbildung »Hör-Buch« bereits andeutet, handelt es sich um einen vielschichtigen Gegenstand, der nicht nur verschiedene Sinne zugleich anspricht, sondern auch in Abhängigkeit von der Perspektive, aus der man ihn betrachtet, seine Gestalt verändert. Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich dieser Vielgestaltigkeit an der Schnittstelle verschiedener Disziplinen. »Das Buch kann sowohl Studierenden als auch Forschenden als Einstieg in das Arbeitsfeld gute Dienste leisten. Da der Forschungsbedarf auf dem Feld des Hörbuchs unstrittig ist, kann dem Sammelband für die Anregungen nur gedankt werden.« Luisa Drews, PhiN, 81 (2017) »Ein sehr ergiebiges Werk, das für alle an der Erforschung von Hörbüchern und Hörspielen interessierten Lesern von großem Nutzen sein dürfte. Den Autorinnen und Autoren gelingt [es], die üblichen Perspektiven auf das Hörbuch vor allem auch durch die Einbeziehung von theaterwissenschaftlichen Aspekten zu bereichern.« Till Kinzel, Informationsmittel (IFB), 25 (2017) Besprochen in: r:k:m, 17.05.2017, Claas Morgenroth

Audiobooks. --- Audiobooks --- Deklamation. --- Hörbuch. --- Hörspiel. --- Audio books --- Books, Cassette --- Books, Recorded --- Books on tape --- Cassette books --- Recorded books --- Sound recordings --- Lyrik. --- Rezeption. --- Diction --- Voice culture --- Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft. --- General Literature Studies. --- Hearing. --- Hören. --- Klang. --- Literary Studies. --- Literatur. --- Literature. --- Literaturwissenschaft. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media. --- Medien. --- Medienästhetik. --- Mündlichkeit. --- Oral Language. --- Radio Play. --- Sound. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Singing and voice culture --- Vocal culture --- Voice training --- Elocution --- Oratory --- Speech --- Rhetoric --- Hörbuch; Hörspiel; Medien; Sound; Literatur; Hören; Mündlichkeit; Klang; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Medienästhetik; Literaturwissenschaft; Audio Book; Radio Play; Media; Literature; Hearing; Oral Language; General Literature Studies; Media Aesthetics; Literary Studies