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
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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