Phonographic modernity : the gramophone industry and music genres in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-fen Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamauchi, Fumitaka, editor.

Wang, Ying-fen (Musicologist), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound recording industry--East Asia--History.

Sound recording industry.

Sound recording industry--Southeast Asia--History.

Music--East Asia--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Southeast Asia--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Histories of phonographic technologies and industries have long overlooked the East and Southeast Asian contributions to the sonic dimension of global modernity. Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-fen Wang address this one-side perspective with a collection of essays that show the nations of the Pacific Rim as vibrant contributors to and participants in human audible history. A roster of experts on countries from Japan to Malaysia explores the complicated relationship between the gramophone industry and music genres in East and Southeast Asia. Extending the boundaries of their research across multiple disciplines, the contributors connect the gramophone industry to theories surrounding phonography and modernity. Their focus on phonography combines an interest in discs with an interest in the sounds contributing to the recent sonic-auditory turn in sound studies. Ambitious and expansive, Phonographic Modernity examines the bloc of East and Southeast Asia within the larger global history of sound recording"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Phonographic Modernity and Audible History in East and Southeast Asia / Fumitaka Yamauchi

Part I. East Asia. Technological Innovations and Corporate Power in the Japanese Record Industry, 1877-1945 / Shuhei Hosokawa ; Phonographic Modernity and Korean Recordings, 1896-1945 / Fumitaka Yamauchi ; The Shellac Period in China : Cooperation, Conflict, and the Sounds of an Era, 1903-1949 / Andreas Steen ; Gramophone Industry in Hong Kong : The Production and Consumption of Cantonese Music Records, 1900-1940 / Yung Sai Shing ; Sounding Taiwanese through Gramophone Recordings, 1895-1945 / Ying-fen Wang

Part II. Southeast Asia. A Missing Legacy : Evidence of Recorded Sound in Pre-1945 Vietnam / Jason Gibbs ; From Secretive Siam to the Independent Recording Industry of Thailand / James Mitchell ; Gramophone Records in Colonial Indonesia / Philip Yampolsky ; Recording the Modern : Local Hybridity and Meaning in the Pan-Malay Songs of British Malaya, 1903-1950s / Tan Sooi Beng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Phonographic modernity

ISBN:

9780252046124

0252046129

OCLC:

1429575022