The Auditory Culture Reader

Edited by

MICHAEL BULL AND LES BACK

0BERG Sensory Formations Series Oxford New York

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 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

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P a r 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'

P a r t III: Anthropologies o f 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

P a r 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

CONTENTS IX

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

Part 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

Index 503