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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 10 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231187121
  • 9780231547024
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952.03 23
LOC classification:
  • DS822.25 .Y3784 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: Long before karaoke's ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, 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.A far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan, Electrified Voices shows how these technologies reshaped the production of culture. Audio technologies upended the status of the written word as the only source of prestige while revivifying traditional forms of orality. The ability to reproduce and transmit sound, freeing it from the constraints of time and space, had profound consequences on late nineteenth-century language reform; twentieth-century literary, musical, and cinematic practices; the rise of militarism and nationalism in the 1920s and 30s; and the transition to the postwar period inaugurated by Emperor Hirohito's declaration of unconditional surrender to Allied forces-a declaration that was recorded on a gramophone record and broadcast throughout the defeated Japanese empire. The first cultural history in English of auditory technologies in modern Japan, Electrified Voices enriches our understanding of Japanese modernity and offers a major contribution to sound studies and global media history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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Long before karaoke's ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, 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.A far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan, Electrified Voices shows how these technologies reshaped the production of culture. Audio technologies upended the status of the written word as the only source of prestige while revivifying traditional forms of orality. The ability to reproduce and transmit sound, freeing it from the constraints of time and space, had profound consequences on late nineteenth-century language reform; twentieth-century literary, musical, and cinematic practices; the rise of militarism and nationalism in the 1920s and 30s; and the transition to the postwar period inaugurated by Emperor Hirohito's declaration of unconditional surrender to Allied forces-a declaration that was recorded on a gramophone record and broadcast throughout the defeated Japanese empire. The first cultural history in English of auditory technologies in modern Japan, Electrified Voices enriches our understanding of Japanese modernity and offers a major contribution to sound studies and global media history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)