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Electrified Voices - How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Hardcover)
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Electrified Voices - How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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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.
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