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Transparent Labyrinth (Pamphlet): Keiichiro Hirano Transparent Labyrinth (Pamphlet)
Keiichiro Hirano; Translated by Kerim Yasar
R208 R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Save R20 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Electrified Voices - How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Paperback): Kerim Yasar Electrified Voices - How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Paperback)
Kerim Yasar
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Nipponia Nippon (Paperback): Kazushige Abe Nipponia Nippon (Paperback)
Kazushige Abe; Translated by Kerim Yasar
R288 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

>p>An off-kilter darkly ironic novella about a boy's strange obsession with the Japanese crested ibis, from a Japanese literary star Seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his waking hours online, fixated on the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon. Alone in his Tokyo apartment, living off his parents' indulgence, he descends into a fantasy world where he alone shares a bond with the last of these noble birds, their lives caged in the national conservation centre. Haruo's destiny becomes clear. He will free the birds-alive or dead-from an undeserving civilization. As Haruo's emotional state grows increasingly erratic, he searches the internet for weapons and prepares for the night of reckoning.

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