ISBN:
9780415633451
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan
DDC:
306.0952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book argues that sound - as it is created, transmitted, and perceived - plays a key role in the constitution of space and community in contemporary Japan. The book examines how sonic practices reflect politics, aesthetics, and ethics, with transformative effects on human relations. From right-wing sound trucks to left-wing protests, from early 20th century jazz cafes to contemporary avant-garde art forms, from the sounds of U.S. military presence to exuberant performances organized in opposition, the book, rich in ethnographic detail, contributes to sensory anthropology and the anthropolo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustration; Contributors; Notes to the reader; 1. Introduction; Introduction; Sonic practices; Social and Spatial Discourse in the Modern Era Japan; Four sites, four sonic stories: Tokyo, Osaka, Hokkaido and Okinawa; Chapter summaries; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Publics that scream, publics that slumber: Sound and the tactics of publicity in the Buraku liberation movement; Mobilizing a sleeping audience; Public slumber; Public forum; Kyûdankai; Enter the sleeper; Conclusion; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Facing the nation: Sound, fury, and public oratory among Japanese right-wing groupsFrom the truck; From the sidewalk; Sound, fury, and oratory; The right in postwar Japan; Sound and contemporary right-wing activism; Sound truck citizens; The pragmatics of volume and performative violence; Territorializing Japan; Megaphone citizens and facing the nation; Recognition and the "Manner Zone"; The 2008 G8 meetings and a clash of activist sonic practices; The ethnic nation, recognition, and the "Manner Zone" revisited; Notes; 4. The political affects of military aircraft noise in Okinawa
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionMethods; Okinawa: sound and social formations; The aural border; Phantom sound; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Distraction, noise, and ambient sounds in Tokyo; Introduction; Modernity and the senses; Sensory experience in the city: distraction, attention, and shock; Onkyō as experimental form; Onkyō and the senses; Attentive listening; Onkyō is not ambient music; Listening and the environment in Japan; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Sounding imaginative empathy: Chindon-ya's affective economies on the streets of Osaka; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Shifting geographies of modernity: streets, public space, and socialityImaginative empathy: the feedback loop of the pecuniary and the social; Sounding imaginative empathy; Public intimacy and listening publics; Conclusion; Notes; 7. The swinging phonograph in a hot teahouse: Sound technology and the emergence of the jazz community in prewar Japan; Introduction; The emergence of the jazz kissa as a site of sonic consumption; Sonic technology and the jazz kissa; From Paris to Chicago: the teahouse as a students' den; The four elements of jazz kissa; Kissa girls; The rise of the swinging kissa
Description / Table of Contents:
Record-centric genreConclusion; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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