Sunday, 20 April 2008

Storytelling & Authenticity V - Richard Bauman

The Remediation of Storytelling: Narrative Performance on Early Commercial Sound Recording
Ok, so here's where it started to get a bit less relevant to me. (Well, it was at the end of the day).
I like the terminology 'remediation' - the 'transformation of oral storytelling into other media'.
But the general gist of the talk was around 3 recordings (with transcriptions provided) of early gramophone recordings in American (which to my tired ears were virtually unintelligible). Richard then spoke in great depth about the nuances of the performances.
As I said, it's not really my research interest so I found it hard to understand.

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