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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Yasar, Kerim (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Collection:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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