Electrified Voices: How The Telephone, Phonograph, And Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 (Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) - 9780231187138

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.

• | Author: Kerim Yasar
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 23, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/SOCIAL SCIENCE
• | ISBN-10: 0231187130
• | ISBN-13: 9780231187138