Electrified Voices : : How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 / / Kerim Yasar.
Long before karaoke's ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 10 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note On Names
- Introduction: All That Is Solid Melts Into Sound
- 1. Vocal Cords And Telephone Wires: Orality In Japan, Old And New
- 2. Sound And Sentiment
- 3. The Grain In The Groove: Inscribed Voices, Echoed Temporalities
- 4. Imagining The Wireless Community
- 5. Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds: Early Japanese Radio Drama
- 6. Sound And Motion
- Coda- Oke
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index