Phonographic Modernity

Fumitaka Yamauchi is a professor of musicology at the National Taiwan University. Ying-fen Wang is a distinguished professor of musicology at the National Taiwan University and the author of Listening to the Colony: Kurosawa Takatomo and the Wartime Survey of Taiwanese Music (1943).

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