TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yasar,Kerim
TI  - Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 
T2  - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SN  - 9780231547024
AV  - DS822 .E443 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Communication
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Sound recordings
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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