Electrified Voices
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Electrified Voices

How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945

Kerim Yasar

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Electrified Voices

How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945

Kerim Yasar

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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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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231547024
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Note On Names
  4. Introduction: All That Is Solid Melts Into Sound
  5. 1. Vocal Cords And Telephone Wires: Orality In Japan, Old And New
  6. 2. Sound And Sentiment
  7. 3. The Grain In The Groove: Inscribed Voices, Echoed Temporalities
  8. 4. Imagining The Wireless Community
  9. 5. Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds: Early Japanese Radio Drama
  10. 6. Sound And Motion
  11. Coda- Oke
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index