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In the first half of the 20th century, the shellac record was the most successful and important medium for the distribution of voice and music recordings. In Japan, it also went hand in hand with the development of film and cinema. The nine essays in this anthology by international specialists use the Kataoka Collection preserved at the University of Bonn to present ways of analyzing and interpreting the records, their metadata, their content, and their consumption. In doing so, they provide new access to the history of Japanese culture, society, and economy in the modern era.
List of contents
Introduction · IT TOMOHIDE, YUKAWA SHIR , REINHARD ZÖLLNER / Modernization of Japanese Performing Arts with the Emergence of Film Culture · KATAOKA ICHIR / Listening to Rakugo: A Record by Yanagiya Kingor · TILL WEINGÄRTNER / The Important Role of Discography in the 78 rpm Record Database · M RI MASATO / The Sound of Crisis · REINHARD ZÖLLNER / On the Intermediality and Mediality of the Record: Preliminary Considerations for a Genre Theory of Katsuben Records · YUKAWA SHIR / How Katsuben SP Records were Enjoyed · UEDA MANABU / The Sound of Lost Silent Films: Using 78 rpm Records for Japanese Film Histories Without Films · KERSTIN FOOKEN / Textiles of Memory: Cinema Woven by Sound · KOMATSU HIROSHI / Analyzing Records: A Guideline on How to Acquire the Metadata of 78 rpm Records · M RI MASATO / About the Authors and Editors / Index
