Electrified Voices - How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 18681945

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kerim Yasar, Yasar Kerim
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2018
• EAN: 9780231187121
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18712-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Japan, Television, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, c 1800 to c 1900, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, History of engineering and technology, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of engineering & technology, Acoustic & sound engineering, Acoustic and sound engineering