Abstract
This paper examines the construction of the home, both in terms of practice and space, from the viewpoint of the culture of sound known as "home music" (katei-ongaku). The concept of home music was spread by music magazines of the 1910's and was described as fostering enjoyable family gatherings (ikka-danran). Home music was realized and transformed from a discourse of concept into a discourse of practice by the spread of phonographs that resounded in the homes of the 1920's. As a result, the home became a space that was constructed by music as a physical, industrial, and cultural phenomenon, and generated by the technology that mediated music.
