Electrified voices : how the telephone, phonograph, and radio shaped modern Japan, 1868-1945 /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yasar, Kerim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Since 1868
Communication > Social aspects > Japan > History.
Sound recordings > Social aspects > Japan > History.
Mass media and culture > Japan > History.
Nationalism > Japan > History.
Médias et culture > Japon > Histoire.
Nationalisme > Japon > Histoire.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Civilization.
Communication > Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Nationalism.
Sound recordings > Social aspects.
Japan > Civilization > 1868-1945.
Japan > History > 1868-
Japon > Civilisation > 1868-1945.
Japon > Histoire > 1868-
Japan.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-261) and index.
ISBN:9780231547024
0231547021

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