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Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan Thisbookarguesthatsound–asitiscreated,transmittedandperceived–plays akeyroleintheconstitutionofspaceandcommunityincontemporaryJapan.The book examines how sonic practices reflect politics, aesthetics and ethics, with transformativeeffectsonhumanrelations.Fromright-wingsoundtruckstoleft- wing protests, from early twentieth-century jazz cafés to contemporary avant-garde art forms, from the sounds of US military presence to exuberant performances organized in opposition, the book, rich in ethnographic detail, contributestosensoryanthropologyandtheanthropologyofcontemporaryJapan. Joseph D. Hankins received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2009 and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. His research investigates the politics and aesthetics of stigmatizedlaborinJapan. Carolyn S. Stevens holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Columbia Universities and is Professor in Japanese Studies and Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of On the Margins of Japanese Society, Japanese Popular Music and Disability in Japan (allpublishedbyRoutledge). 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Hankins and Carolyn S. Stevens R Routledge Tavlor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublished2014 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2014selectionandeditorialmaterial,JosephD.HankinsandCarolynS. Stevens;individualchapters,thecontributors Therightoftheeditortobeidentifiedasauthoroftheeditorialmaterial,and oftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordance withsections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfrom thepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Sound,spaceandsocialityinmodernJapan/editedbyJosephD.Hankins andCarolynS.Stevens. pagescm—(RoutledgecontemporaryJapanseries;49.) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Ethnology—Japan.2.Sensesandsensation—Japan.3.Ethnomusicology— Japan.4.Auditoryperception—Japan.5.Musicalperception—Japan.6. Popularmusic—Japan.7.Popularculture—Japan.8.Socialmovements— Japan.9.Japan—Sociallifeandcusotms.I.Hankins,JosephD.II.Stevens, CarolynS.,1963– GN635.J2S682013 306.0952—dc23 2012051062 ISBN:978-0-415-63345-1(hbk) ISBN:978-0-203-76129-8(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byFiSHBooksLtd,Enfield Contents Acknowledgements x List of illustrations xi Contributors xii Notes to the reader xiv 1 Introduction 1 JOSEPHD.HANKINSANDCAROLYNS.STEVENS 2 Publics that scream, publics that slumber: Sound and the tactics of publicity in the Buraku liberation movement 20 JOSEPHD.HANKINS 3 Facing the nation: Sound, fury, and public oratory among Japanese right-wing groups 37 NATHANIELM.SMITH 4 ThepoliticalaffectsofmilitaryaircraftnoiseinOkinawa 57 RUPERTCOX 5 Distraction, noise, and ambient sounds inTokyo 71 LORRAINEPLOURDE 6 Sounding imaginative empathy: Chindon-ya’s affective economies on the streets of Osaka 89 MARIÉABE 7 The swinging phonograph in a hot teahouse: Sound technology and the emergence of the jazz community in prewar Japan 108 SHUHEIHOSOKAWA References 127 Index 140
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