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1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Ser |
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Asian Sound Cultures -- Sound, modernity, and Asia -- The politics of voice -- Modern noise -- Sound and power -- Technology and imperialism -- Asia as method, or: Why listen to Asia? -- References -- Part I: The politics of voice -- Chapter 1: The phonographic politics of 'corporeal voice': Speech recordings for imperial subjectification and wartime mobilisation in colonial Taiwan and Korea -- Introduction |
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The corporeal voice of a war god -- Echoes from the Russo-Japanese War -- Admonishing the Taiwanese islanders and youths: Kobayashi Seizō -- Mobilising for the new-order regime in wartime Korea: Minami Jirō -- Calling the living to battlefields in the empire of silence -- Cultivating a deaf ear in the shelter of the silenced -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Newspapers and periodicals (language, place) -- Chapter 2: In dark times: Poetic dissonance in the Thai-Malay borderlands -- Introduction -- Voice and political subjectivity -- This is not the 'deep south' -- From voice to dialogue |
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The microphone -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Sonic aesthetics and social disparity: The voice of villains in Ryoo Seung-wan's Veteran (2015) and The Unjust (2010) -- Introduction -- The five bandits' villainy endures in South Korea -- The Unjust and Veteran -- Contempt and sarcasm -- Indignation and sarcasm -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: Spectrograms -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Part II: Modern noise -- Chapter 4: Aesthetic ruptures and sociabilities: Tateyama Noboru (1876-1926), quotidian noise, and sōkyoku-jiuta -- Introduction |
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Aesthetic beginnings and the culture of sentiment: Endless melody, and the pre-modern understandings of musical meaning -- Early Meiji composers and change -- New sociability: The outside has been brought inside -- Concluding observations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The 'hell of modern sound': A history of urban noise in modern Japan -- Introduction -- The changing ecology of sound -- Defining, understanding, and controlling noise -- Reconstruction and the re-definition of the problem -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 6: Feel the power of my exoticism: Japanese Noise music and claims of a distinct Japanese sound -- Introduction -- An exoticism -- The making of a genre -- A contrasting Japanese musical sound -- The neurophysiologic justification of aural differences -- A positive binder between dualities -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Sound and power -- Chapter 7: Listening to the talkies: Atarashiki tsuchi's (1937) acoustic construction of Japan for western consumption -- Introduction -- Music -- Noise -- Voice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Films |
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Chapter 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) |
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Print version record |
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Ethnomusicology.
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ethnomusicology.
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Ethnomusicology
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| SUBJECT |
Asia
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Asia
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoene, Christin
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Smith, Martyn David
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| ISBN |
9781000686883 |
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1000686884 |
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