Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan

✍ Scribed by Joseph D. Hankins (editor), Carolyn S. Stevens (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 anthropology of contemporary Japan.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Contributors
Notes to the reader
1 Introduction • Joseph D. Hankins and Carolyn S. Stevens
2 Publics that scream, publics that slumber: Sound and the tactics of publicity in the Buraku liberation movement • Joseph D. Hankins
3 Facing the nation: Sound, fury, and public oratory among Japanese right-wing groups • Nathaniel M. Smith
4 The political affects of military aircraft noise in Okinawa • Rupert Cox
5 Distraction, noise, and ambient sounds in Tokyo • Lorraine Plourde
6 Sounding imaginative empathy: Chindon-ya’s affective economies on the streets of Osaka • Marié Abe
7 The swinging phonograph in a hot teahouse: Sound technology and the emergence of the jazz community in prewar Japan • Shuhei Hosokawa
References
Index