Abstract
This chapter focuses on the impact of recording and radio broadcasting on speech delivery, teaching, and research. During the 1910s to the early 1930s, the discipline of speech replaced the highly emotional practice of elocution with the more emotionally restrained practice of public speaking. This change reflects both concerns about emotional control encouraged by the new media age, and the use of various technologies by speech teachers, scientists, and others. This new speech is both conversational and highly polished, illustrating concerns inspired by the new possibilities of amplification. The chapter shows how discussions of broadcast speech became prominently involved in debates, as the radio announcer became an exemplar of the new mass-mediated subjectivity. The radio announcer enacted the emotionally controlled life with technology to which every American was supposed to aspire.
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