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Contents Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: Into Sound Michael Bull and Les Back 1 Part I: Thinking about Sound 1 Open Ears Murray Schafer 21 2 Hearing Loss Leigh Eric Schmidt 37 3 Auditory Imagination Don Ihde 57 4 The Help of Your Good Hands: Reports on Clapping Steven Connor 63 5 The Sound of Music Douglas Kahn 73 6 Songtime: Sound Culture, Rhythm and Sociality Paul Filmer 87 Part II: Histories of Sound 7 The Auditory Markers of the Village Alain Corbin 111 8 Tuning into London c.1600 Bruce R. Smith 121 9 Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America Mark M. Smith 131 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 159 11 Medicine's Acoustic Culture: Mediate Auscultation, the Stethoscope and the 'Autopsy of the Living' Jonathan Sterne 185 Part III: Anthropologies of Sound 12 A Rainforest Acoustemology. Steven Feld 215 13 Performing Patriotism in Native North America: Objibwa Powwow-Sounds and the Paradoxes of Identity Cora Bender 233 14 Sectarian Sound and Cultural Identity in Northern Ireland Paul Moore 257 15 Nostalgia and Radio Sound Jo Tacchi 273 Part IV: Sounds in the City 16 Aural Postcards Fran Tonkiss 295 17 Sounds in the Crowd Les Back 303 18 The Sonic Composition of the City Jean Paul Thibaud 321 19 'How Many Movements' Caroline Bassett 335 20 Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Study of Automobile Habitation. Michael Bull 349 Part V: Living and Thinking with Music 21 Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy 373 22 Diasporic Sounds: Dis/located Sounds Vic Seidler 389 23 The Sounds of Alterity Sanjay Sharma 401 24 Calypso Kings Stuart Hall 411 25 Bessie Smith: 'Thinking Blues' Susan McClary 419 26 Interview with Les Henry: 'Chatting for a Change' Les Back 427 27 Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session Julian Henriques 443 28 Resistance Richard Sennett 473 Part VI: Afterword 29 The Indefensible Ear: A History Hillel Schwartz 479 Index 495
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hearing, Listening, Audiology, Senses and sensation