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Electrified Voices How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 / Kerim Yasar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231547024
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS822 .E443 2018
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Subject: 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.
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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.

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