Yasar, Kerim. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231547024 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communication--Social aspects--History.--Japan<br/>Sound recordings--Social aspects--History.--Japan<br/>Mass media and culture--History.--Japan<br/>Nationalism--History.--Japan
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS822  / .E443 2018