Full Description
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 East and Southeast Asia as vibrant contributors to and participants in human audible history. A roster of experts on countries from Japan to Indonesia 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.
Contents
Preface
Ying-fen Wang
Notes on Names, Transliterations, and Translations
Introduction: Phonographic Modernity and Audible History in East and Southeast Asia
Fumitaka Yamauchi
Part I: East Asia
Chapter 1. Technological Innovations and Corporate Power in the Japanese Record Industry, 1877-1945
Shuhei Hosokawa
Chapter 2. Phonographic Modernity and Korean Recordings, 1896-1945
Fumitaka Yamauchi
Chapter 3. The Shellac Period in China: Cooperation, Conflict, and the Sounds of an Era, 1903-1949
Andreas Steen
Chapter 4. Gramophone Industry in Hong Kong: The Production and Consumption of Cantonese Music Records, 1900-1940
Yung Sai Shing
Chapter 5. Sounding Taiwanese through Gramophone Recordings, 1895-1945
Ying-fen Wang
Part II: Southeast Asia
Chapter 6. A Missing Legacy: Evidence of Recorded Sound in Pre-1945 Vietnam
Jason Gibbs
Chapter 7. From Secretive Siam to the Independent Recording Industry of Thailand
James Mitchell
Chapter 8. Gramophone Records in Colonial Indonesia
Philip Yampolsky
Chapter 9. Recording the Modern: Local Hybridity and Meaning in the Pan-Malay Songs of British Malaya, 1903-1950s
Tan Sooi Beng
Appendix: Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms
Contributors
Index
