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WEAI Author Q&A: Kerim Yasar’s “Electrified Voices”

September 18, 2018 by Ross Yelsey

We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Kerim Yasar, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California who … [Read more...]

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Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945

STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kerim Yasar (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of … [Read more...]

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