Speaking Texts: Recordings, Preservation, Accessibility, and Indigeneity

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America

This panel brings together scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.

January 24, 2023 1 PM Eastern – ONLINE

Bibliographical analysis of texts requires close looking at objects, which traditionally have been printed textual artifacts. While scholars working in the digital humanities have made headway in pursuing the bibliographical analysis of digital objects, such as OCR’d text, bibliographical analysis of other kinds of new media, such as recorded sound and its accompanying textual transcriptions, has received less attention among bibliographers. Yet many texts, like the oral cultures of residents of Appalachia, tribal members of various Indigenous communities, and formerly enslaved people of African descent, are not recorded in printed text until after they are recorded in sound. Such various iterations of text in new recorded formats raise traditional bibliographical questions: What is an edition, state, and issue? Does the physical format of the sound recording help us to understand the production and dissemination of the text? This panel seeks to bring together several scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.

Speakers:

Justin Tackett, University of Warwick (Moderator)
Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
Mara Mills, New York University
Alan Corbiere, York University

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