Brenton J. Malin, 'Electrifying Voices' - a podcast by The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)

Brenton J. Malin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies and teaches media history, theory and criticism, and is the author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (NYU Press, 2014). This lecture, 'Electrifying Voices: Technology and Public Speaking in the Early Twentieth-Century United States', opened a conference on 'Emotions, History and Media: Theory and Practice' at The University of Adelaide. It was delivered on 22 September 2016, and explores how a series of technological developments in the early twentieth-century United States aided in the creation of a new model of public speech.

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