My dissertation, which I defended in April 2007, is "The Following Record": Making Sense of Phonographic Performance, 1877-1908.  It is now (as of October 2007) available through ProQuest, so if you'd like to order a copy of the full text, you can do so here.  I've also posted a Word file of the Introduction here.  And here's a list of the contents:
 

INTRODUCTION: Listening Through Phonograms; Phonographicists, Academics, and Listening; Past Views of the Phonographic "Art"; Secondary Orality and Schizophonia; Tympanic Transduction, Induction, and Eduction; Performing For and With the Machine; Acoustic Recording and Phonographic Transcription.  1 TRICKS WITH TINFOIL: Retroduction and Deictic Inversion; Rhymes, Songs, and Laughter; Speed-Shifting and Reverse Eduction; The Phonographic Montage; Prerecorded Tinfoils.  2 THE EARLY COMMERCIAL PHONOGRAM: "A New Kind of Books"; How the Phonograph Became "Practical"; The Recording Industry Gets Underway; The Arts of Recording and Phonogenic Performance; The Drama of Eduction; Phonography Becomes a Mass Medium.  3 SPEECH CONVENTIONS OF EARLY SOUND MEDIA:  "Don't Hello to Me--I'm No Telephone"; "Graphophone Says the Line is Busy"; "My Mother Was a Phonograph"; The Spoken Phonogram Announcement.  4 PHONOGRAPHIC DEPICTION: The Simulated Ovation, Roots of Audio Theater, Ethnic Caricature and Early Phonographic Comedy; The Quartet Descriptive.  5 DANCE CALLS AND SALES PITCHES: Dances with Calls; The Verbal Art of the Marketplace.  6 COMPLEX ENTERTAINMENTS: Minstrelsy; Vaudeville.  CONCLUSION.  722 pp.

Some other book-length manuscripts for which I have more or less polished drafts sitting on my hard drive are From Echo to Tinfoil, a performance-centered prehistory of the phonograph with new data and perspectives on "talking heads," Faber's Euphonia, melography, phonautography, logography, etc.; The Phonograph Fakir, an investigation of notions of authenticity and authority with respect to early phonographic culture, including applications to courtship, politics, religion, ethnology, memorialization of the dead, etc.; and The Man Who Made Millions Laugh, a study of the life and work of the phonographic raconteur Cal Stewart.

These were all originally parts of one big manuscript called Automated Voices, which I wrote between 2002 and 2005, but which ended up far too long (2,000+ pages) to function as a dissertation, much less to think about trying to get published anywhere (except perhaps as an industrial strength doorstop).

Select Publications and Media

Richard Bauman and Patrick Feaster, “‘Fellow Townsmen and My Noble Constituents!’: Representations of Oratory on Early Commercial Recordings,” Oral Tradition 20:1 (2005):35-57. [Full Text]

Richard Bauman and Patrick Feaster, "Oratorical Footing in a New Medium: Recordings of Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1896-1912," Texas Linguistic Forum 46 (2003): Texas Linguistic Society Proceedings. [Full Text]

Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni, album notes, Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From the 1890s (Champaign IL: Archeophone, 2007). [Order]

Patrick Feaster, "Speech Acoustics and the Keyboard Telephone: Rethinking Edison's Discovery of the Phonograph Principle," ARSC Journal 38:1 (Spring 2007), 10-43; see also "Letters to the Editor: Rethinking Edison's Discovery of the Phonograph Principle," ARSC Journal 38:2 (Fall 2007), 226-228. [Journal website]

NPR interviews about the recovery of the world's oldest sound recordings on Talk of the Nation, Apr. 4, 2008 and All Things Considered, Mar. 27, 2008; about Actionable Offenses on Weekend Edition, June 16, 2007; and about the phonographic reenactment of the San Francisco earthquake on Morning Edition, April 20, 2006.

“Researching Cal Stewart and ‘Uncle Josh’" interview with Jerry Fabris, Thomas Edison’s Attic, WFMU, Jan. 9, 2007 [Part One] and Jan. 27, 2007 [Part Two].

Pioneers of Audio Theater and Advance List for December, 1908, two Cylinder Radio programs I "curate" at UCSB.