Asian Sound Cultures : Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology (Hardcover)

Introducing Asian Sound CulturesIris Haukamp, Christin Hoene and Martyn David SmithPart 1: The politics of voice1. The phonographic politics of ‘corporeal voice’: Speech recordings for imperial subjectification and wartime mobilization in colonial Taiwan and Korea Yamauchi Fumitaka2. In dark times: Poetic dissonance in the Thai-Malay borderlands Noah Viernes3. Sonic aesthetics and social disparity: The voice of villains in Ryoo Seung-wan’s Veteran (2015) and The Unjust (2010) Jina Eleanor KimPart 2: Modern noise 4. Aesthetic ruptures and sociabilities: Tateyama Noboru (1876?1926), quotidian noise, and s?kyoku-jiuta Philip Flavin5. The ‘hell of modern sound’: A history of urban noise in modern Japan Martyn David Smith6. Feel the power of my exoticism: Japanese noise music and claims of a distinct Japanese sound Jeremy CorralPart 3: Sound and power 7. Listening to the talkies: Atarashiki tsuchi’s (1937) acoustic construction of Japan for western consumption Iris Haukamp8. Recovering the lost Cantonese sounds in pre-handover Hong Kong: Sinophone politics in Dung Kai-cheung’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Wing Shing Street’ (1995) Ka Lee Wong9. When the looms stop, the baby cries: The changing sounds of the Kyoto kimono-making industry Jenny HallPart 4: Technology and imperialism10. Early radio in late colonial India: Historiography, geography, audiencesVebhuti Duggal and Christin Hoene11. (Re) Diffusion of beautiful sound: Chinese broadcast in post-war BangkokKornphanat Tungkeunkunt12. Arranging sounds from daily life: Amateur sound-recording contests and audio culture in Japan in the 1960s and 1970sTomotaro Kaneko13. The dual fate of the twin horn in Thailand: From United States anti-communist weapon to the Phetchabun processional bands’ sound systemPierre Prouteau