Electrified Voices How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 /
Yasar, Kerim.
Electrified Voices How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 / Kerim Yasar. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (302 pages). - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; 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
Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.
9780231547024
Communication--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Sound recordings--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Mass media and culture--History.--Japan
Nationalism--History.--Japan
Electronic Books.
DS822 / .E443 2018
Electrified Voices How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 / Kerim Yasar. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (302 pages). - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; 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
Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.
9780231547024
Communication--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Sound recordings--Social aspects--History.--Japan
Mass media and culture--History.--Japan
Nationalism--History.--Japan
Electronic Books.
DS822 / .E443 2018