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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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Il volume si presenta come un’agile ricostruzione della storia sociale del libro e del rapporto che l’uomo ha tessuto con il testo. Vuole indagare come, dall’incisione su tavolette, passando poi dal rotolo e dalla tecnologia della stampa fino alla scrittura digitale, il lettore e lo scrittore abbiano progressivamente modificato il loro legame rimettendo in discussione i propri ruoli. Parlare della produzione testuale nell’era digitale dal punto di vista sociologico permette di comprendere meglio qual è il contesto in cui un umanista digitale dovrà muoversi affrontando la difficile sfida di dovere studiare nuovi modelli di conservazione e condivisione della conoscenza. Ampio spazio è stato dato alle piattaforme on line, soprattutto Wattpad, i social network per la social reading e gli audiolibri, tutte tecnologie che permettono di porsi nuovi interrogativi su quali siano gli usi che i lettori fanno dei testi immergendosi in una dimensione inedita di convergenza culturale e tecnologica. Il tema caro a sociologi, storici del libro e critici letterari è stato affrontato osservando il quadro generale soprattutto dalla parte dell’audience che trasforma, commenta, recensisce le produzioni editoriali attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie digitali. Il libro, avendo voluto ricostruire anche quali sfide il web semantico dovrà affrontare nel prossimo futuro, si propone come strumento destinato a coloro che sono interessati a discipline afferenti al testo digitale, all’editoria e alle digital humanities, al fine di cogliere l’andamento storico dei rapporti sociali che il testo ha sempre saputo stimolare. Si è prestata in generale una particolare attenzione al presente, indagato con l’obiettivo di comprendere come esso sta intessendo le condizioni preliminari per gli imminenti sviluppi dello scrivere e del leggere.

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