Hi friends – Please join us for the next TAXIS open reading group meeting. In July we are reading around the theme of radio and popular music in China and Japan, focusing on two works:
Jones, Andrew F. 2020. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Yasar, Kerim. 2018. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press.
More generally we’ll discuss sound media as national and international infrastructures of culture.
We’ll be meeting on Zoom on Friday July 9th, at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern) / 3:30 p.m. (London) / 4:30pm (Paris) (note the new time / we’ll see how attendance fairs this time and see if we go back to the original time…).
As usual, we’ll do some work to divvy up the larger text in to shorter chunks that we report back on during the meeting. This will be done over email; there is no formal mailing list for the group although we may make one in the future as we move towards being an official CHSTM group.
There’s two books here, so of course no expectation to read more than a couple chapters as usual. Just pick what seems interesting across the books and let the group know what you’d like to summarize for everyone else (if anything).
If you would like to be included in the next meeting or upcoming meetings, please get in touch with either myself (belle2@tcd.ie) or Ezra (ezra@redthunderaudio.com) to be kept in the loop. We will also send out the Zoom link for this meeting by email, closer to the time. All are welcome!