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“How the Audiobook Got Its Groove Back” a Talk by Matthew Rubery
Moderated by SpokenWeb co-applicant and Governing Board member Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University), collaborating SpokenWeb team-member Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London) will present the following talk:
“How the Audiobook Got Its Groove Back”
Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)
22 October 2020 at 1pm EDT
What might an audiobook liberated from preconceived notions of the printed book sound like? Whereas most literary recordings seek to imitate print formats as faithfully as possible, this presentation examines a series of performances that take advantage of the audiobook’s affordances in order to go beyond merely replicating print. Drawing on source material ranging from musician memoirs to fiction by Charles Dickens and Stephen King, it considers what’s at stake when audio publishers experiment with soundtracks that go beyond the verbal description of sounds by using actual sounds.
Matthew Rubery is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (2016) and editor of Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (2011). His most recent publication is Further Reading (2020), a collection of essays for the series Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature.
To register for the zoom event please email: spokenwebcanada@gmail.com
