Contents
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: Into Sound
Michael Bull and Les Back 1
Par t I: Thinking about Sound
1 Open Ears
Murray Schafer 25
2 Hearing Loss
Leigh Eric Schmidt 41
3 Auditory Imagination
Don Ihde 61
4 The Help of Your Good Hands: Reports on Clapping
Steven Connor 67
5 The Sound of Music
Douglas Kahn 77
6 Songtime: Sound Culture, Rhythm and Sociality
Paul Filmer 91
Par t II: Histories of Sound
7 The Auditory Markers of the Village
Alain Corbin 117
8 Tuning into London c.1600
Bruce R. Smith 127
9 Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America
Mark M. Smith 137
10 The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age:
Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European
and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns,
1900-40
Karin Bijsterveld 165
11 Medicine's Acoustic Culture: Mediate Auscultation, the
Stethoscope and the 'Autopsy of the Living'
Par t III: Anthropologies of Sound
12 A Rainforest Acoustemology
Steven Feld 223
13 Performing Patriotism in Native North America: Ojibwa
Powwow-sounds and the Paradoxes of Identity
Cora Bender 241
14 Sectarian Sound and Cultural Identity in Northern
Ireland
Paul Moore 265
15 Nostalgia and Radio Sound
Jo Tacchi 281
Par t IV: Sounds in the City
16 Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City
Fran Tonkiss 303
Jonathan Sterne 191
17 Sounds in the Crowd
Les Back 311
18 The Sonic Composition of the City
Jean-Paul Thibaud 329
19 How Many Movements?
Caroline Basset 343
20 Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Study of Automobile
Habitation
Michael Bull 357
Par t V: Living and Thinking with Music
21 Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes
of the Black Atlantic
Paul Gilroy 381
22 Diasporic Sounds: Dis/Located Sounds
Vic Seidler 397
23 The Sounds of Alterity
Sanjay Sharma 409
24 Calypso Kings
Stuart Hall 419
25 Bessie Smith: 'Thinking Blues'
Susan McClary 427
26 'Chatting' for Change!: Interview with William
(Lez) Henry 435
27 Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session
Julian Henriques 451
28 Resistance
Richard Sennett 481
Afterword
The Indefensible Ear: A History
Hillel Schwartz 487
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