Comments on: Rare Recording of Walt Whitman Reading http://www.openculture.com/2008/05/rare_recording_of_walt_whitman_reading.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Voices from the 19th Century: Tennyson, Gladstone, Whitman & Tchaikovsky | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2008/05/rare_recording_of_walt_whitman_reading.html#comment-23085 Voices from the 19th Century: Tennyson, Gladstone, Whitman & Tchaikovsky | Open Culture Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:25:32 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=1044#comment-23085 [...] First we have Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign, reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade” on the wax cylinder in 1890. Mass marketed during the 1880s, this early recording device also captured the voice of Walt Whitman. [...] [...] First we have Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign, reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade” on the wax cylinder in 1890. Mass marketed during the 1880s, this early recording device also captured the voice of Walt Whitman. [...]

]]> By: Jimhermanson http://www.openculture.com/2008/05/rare_recording_of_walt_whitman_reading.html#comment-21268 Jimhermanson Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:31:00 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=1044#comment-21268 What you have linked here is not the Walt Whitman cylinder recording, but the soundtrack of the Levi's commercial that used it, with added music and sound effects. For a thorough rundown on the controversial recording (is it a hoax?) see my blog at http://redhermwheelbarrow.blogspot.com/2011/03/voice-of-poet.html What you have linked here is not the Walt Whitman cylinder recording, but the soundtrack of the Levi’s commercial that used it, with added music and sound effects.

For a thorough rundown on the controversial recording (is it a hoax?) see my blog at http://redhermwheelbarrow.blogspot.com/2011/03/voice-of-poet.html

]]> By: 45 Great Cultural Icons Revisited | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2008/05/rare_recording_of_walt_whitman_reading.html#comment-15716 45 Great Cultural Icons Revisited | Open Culture Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:56:09 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=1044#comment-15716 [...] Rare Recording of Walt Whitman Reading [...] [...] Rare Recording of Walt Whitman Reading [...]

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