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Electrified Voices
How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
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Kerim Yasar
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Kerim Yasar is assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California.
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Michael K. Bourdaghs, author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop:
Kerim Yasar recounts the fascinating story of how modernity in Japan sounded. Eminently readable, his book traces how Japan’s existing soundscape found itself translated and transformed by such modern audio technologies as the telephone, gramophone, radio, and talkie cinema, and how the process launched new debates about what it means to represent the real.
Kerim Yasar recounts the fascinating story of how modernity in Japan sounded. Eminently readable, his book traces how Japan’s existing soundscape found itself translated and transformed by such modern audio technologies as the telephone, gramophone, radio, and talkie cinema, and how the process launched new debates about what it means to represent the real.
John Durham Peters, Yale University:
The sounds coming from Japan in this book are both strange and familiar to ears used to reading about acoustic modernity in the North Atlantic world. Kerim Yasar has found new stories and characters for asking classic questions in media history and I, for one, am delighted to be enriched by a media-historical book on Japan that is so innovative in its historical approach and its choice of media. This book sings the body electric in Japan.
Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles:
Electrified Voices is an innovative, pathbreaking study of sound culture, media, and technology in modern Japan.
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 14, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780231547024
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Other:
10 b&w illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780231547024
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Professional and scholarly;
