Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Names; Introduction: All That Is Solid Melts Into Sound; 1. Vocal Cords and Telephone Wires: Orality in Japan, Old and New; 2. Sound and Sentiment; 3. The Grain in the Groove: Inscribed Voices, Echoed Temporalities; 4. Imagining the Wireless Community; 5. Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds: Early Japanese Radio Drama; 6. Sound and Motion; Coda-oke; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-261) and index
