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

Part 1: The politics of voice 1. The phonographic politics of ‘corporeal voice’: Speech recordings for imperial subjectification and wartime mobilization in colonial Taiwan and Korea 2. In dark times: Poetic dissonance in the Thai-Malay borderlands 3. Sonic aesthetics and social disparity: The voice of villains in Ryoo Seung-wan’s Veteran (2015) and The Unjust (2010) Part 2: Modern noise 4. Aesthetic ruptures and sociabilities: Tateyama Noboru (1876?1926), quotidian noise, and s?kyoku-jiuta 5. The ‘hell of modern sound’: A history of urban noise in modern Japan 6. Feel the power of my exoticism: Japanese noise music and claims of a distinct Japanese sound Part 3: Sound and power 7. Listening to the talkies: Atarashiki tsuchi’s (1937) acoustic construction of Japan for western consumption 8. 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) 9. When the looms stop, the baby cries: The changing sounds of the Kyoto kimono-making industry Part 4: Technology and imperialism 10. Early radio in late colonial India: Historiography, geography, audiences 11. (Re) Diffusion of beautiful sound: Chinese broadcast in post-war Bangkok 12. Arranging sounds from daily life: Amateur sound-recording contests and audio culture in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s 13. The dual fate of the twin horn in Thailand: From United States anti-communist weapon to the Phetchabun processional bands’ sound system