AudioBookFinder.co.uk is a network of audio book resources
Title
Love Audiobooks? Well you've come to the right Place!
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- Search our Audiobook store for your favourite book titles. No monthly subscription to pay & no extra software to install.
Additional Information
Audio Publishers Association (APA) Fact Sheet
Overview of the Audio Publishers Association
• The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is a not-for-profit trade organization created in 1986 to promote awareness of the audiobook industry, gather and disseminate industry statistics, encourage high production standards, and represent the interests of audiobook publishers.
• Audiobooks have a unique and fascinating history. In 1933, anthropologist J.P. Harrington, drove the length of North America to record oral histories of Native American tribes on aluminum discs using a car battery-powered turntable. Now, in the 21st Century, the definition of books and publishing is evolving as technology advances and the consumer demands change.
Audiobooks allow avid readers to multi-task in today’s hectic world. Consumers can listen to an audiobook as they commute, exercise, or cook. At the same time, audiobooks preserve the oral tradition of storytelling that J.P. Harrington pursued many years ago. Narration, sound effects, and music can complement the reading experience.
• A historical perspective by Marianne Roney: In January 1952, Barbara Cohen and Marianne Roney, sat down with Dylan Thomas in the bar of the Chelsea Hotel and persuaded him to record some of his poetry. Spoken word records were almost unheard of at the time. Cohen and Roney knew that Thomas’s poetry was shocking, moving and important, and that they wanted to record it to preserve the sounds. With the promise of five hundred dollars, and much coaxing and cajoling, a recording session was arranged. Thomas selected the poems, writing the list in his tiny round letters in Miss Roney’s appointment book for Friday, February 15th, 1952.
Caedmon Records was born the next week, named, appropriately enough, for the first poet to write in the native language of Old England. February 15th came and went, without Thomas. It is difficult to imagine how much nervous energy was expended in trying to find the lost poet and rescheduling his recording session. On February 22nd, Peter Bartok, son of the composer Bela Bartok, had set up his equipment in Steinway Hall to do the recording. Thomas began the session with “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Bartok had perhaps expected a quavery poet’s voice, but instead he got a French horn.
After some consideration, he adjusted the microphone for a symphonic recording to accommodate Thomas’s sonorous voice. Thomas continued, reading “In the White Giant’s Thigh” and a handful of other poems. And then came the realization that the poems were long enough for only one side of a long2 playing record. To fill the other side of the record Thomas recorded a story he sold to Harper’s Bazaar, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. This recording established A Child’s Christmas in Wales as a Christmas classic.
It is Dylan Thomas’s most widely known work and, as a model of translucent prose, stands as an everlasting testament to his greatness as poet and bard.
