Sound, Space and Sociality in Modern Japan

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 stigmatized labor in Japan. Carolyn S. Stevens holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Columbia, 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 (all published by Routledge).

1. Introduction 2. Sound and the Tactics of Publicity in the Buraku Liberation Movement3. Facing the Nation: Sound, Fury, and Public Oratory among Japanese Right-Wing Groups 4. Military Aircraft Noise and the Politics of Spatial Affect in Okinawa 5. Distraction, Noise, and Ambient Sounds in Tokyo6. Sounding Imaginative Empathy: Chindon-ya’s Affective Economies on the Streets of Osaka7. The Swinging Phonograph in a Hot Teahouse: Sound Technology and the Emergence of the Jazz Community in Prewar Japan