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Starting in the 1930s until well into the early 1960s, people in North and South America, Europe and as far away as Egypt and Australia were sending each other hundreds of thousands of small gramophonic missives that had been recorded by visitors to amusement parks and arcades, by soldiers on army bases, by people in post-offices and tourist sites, and by families at home. What did such early voice mail letters look and sound like? What happens to the form of the letter when it is spoken rather than written? Above all, in light of its global importance over a number of decades, why is this widespread phenomenon so unknown today? Given the puzzling absence of any institutional collection or literature focused on this fascinating chapter of media history, in order to answer such questions I founded the Princeton Phono-Post Archive to systematically collect and catalogue gramophonic voice mail records from around the world. Using examples from this unique online audio-visual repository, this lecture will sketch a provisional media archaeology of gramophonic audio epistolary, documenting a vernacular recording and playback practice that represented for vast numbers of people their first encounter with audio recording, which is to say, their initiation into the media culture of modernity.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCoyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eWhile already envisaged by Thomas Edison at the dawn of phonography in 1877, sending the voice by mail really took on sociologically significant dimensions with the advent of the flat (and thus more postally appropriate) gramophone record at the beginning of the 20th-century. Starting in the 1930s until well into the early 1960s, people in North and South America, Europe and as far away as Egypt and Australia were sending each other hundreds of thousands of small gramophonic missives that had been recorded by visitors to amusement parks and arcades, by soldiers on army bases, by people in post-offices and tourist sites, and by families at home. What did such early voice mail letters look and sound like? What happens to the form of the letter when it is spoken rather than written? Above all, in light of its global importance over a number of decades, why is this widespread phenomenon so unknown today? Given the puzzling absence of any institutional collection or literature focused on this fascinating chapter of media history, in order to answer such questions I founded the Princeton Phono-Post Archive to systematically collect and catalogue gramophonic voice mail records from around the world. 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