Whose blue heaven? Musicality in the early Japanese talkies
This article focuses on the advent of synchronized sound production in Japan in 1931 – three years later than the United States – and the generative ambiguities of how sound and music’s relationship to film was figured in that year’s anxious discourse. I argue that this ‘belatedness’ is echoed in re...
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sg-smu-ink.soss_research-43842020-02-13T09:16:33Z Whose blue heaven? Musicality in the early Japanese talkies DAVIS, Richard M This article focuses on the advent of synchronized sound production in Japan in 1931 – three years later than the United States – and the generative ambiguities of how sound and music’s relationship to film was figured in that year’s anxious discourse. I argue that this ‘belatedness’ is echoed in relationships of on-screen image and offscreen sound, noise, and music in two important early sound films, The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine (Gosho 1931) and A Tipsy Life (Kimura 1933). 2018-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3127 info:doi/10.1080/17564905.2018.1450470 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4384/viewcontent/Whose_Blue_Heaven___PV.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Japan early sound film musicals offscreen space modernity Asian Studies Music |
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This article focuses on the advent of synchronized sound production in Japan in 1931 – three years later than the United States – and the generative ambiguities of how sound and music’s relationship to film was figured in that year’s anxious discourse. I argue that this ‘belatedness’ is echoed in relationships of on-screen image and offscreen sound, noise, and music in two important early sound films, The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine (Gosho 1931) and A Tipsy Life (Kimura 1933). |
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