Kerim Yasar

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Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945Paperback, 23 October 2018

Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945
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Part of Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Date Published
23 Oct 2018
ISBN-10
0231187130
ISBN-13
9780231187138

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Kerim Yasar
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
23 October 2018
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
Genre:
Asian - Japanese
ISBN-10:
0231187130
ISBN-13:
9780231187138
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
304
Weight:
453.59 gm

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