The Auditory Culture Reader

Edited by

MICHAEL BULL AND LES BACK

~BERG
Sensory Formations Series Oxford· New York
 Contents

Notes on Contrlbutors xi

Acknowledgemenu xvii

Introduction: Into Sound

Michael Bull and Les Back 1

Pmrtl:ThinldngaboutSound

1 Open Ears
Murray Schafer 2S

2 Hearing Loss
Leigh Erlc Schmidt 41

3 Auditory Imagination
DonIhde 61

4 The Help of Yom Good Hands: Reports on Clapping

Steven Cannar 67

5 The Sound of Music

Douglas Kahn 77

6 Songtime: Sound Culture, Rhythm and Sociality

Paul Filmer 91
VIII CONfENTS

Part 11: Histories of Sound

1 The Auditory Markers of the Village

Alain Corbin 117

8 Tuning into London c.1600

Bmce 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'
Jonathan Sterne 191

Part III: Anthropologies of Sound

12 ARainforest 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 Culturalldentity in Northem

Ireland
Paul Moore 265

15 Nostalgia and Radio Sound

Jo Tacchi 281

Part IV: Sounds in the City

16 Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City

Fran Tonkiss 303

11 Sounds in the Crowd

Les Back 311
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18 The Sonic Composition of the City

Jean·Paul Thibaud 329

19 How Many Movements?

Caroline Bassett 343

20 Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Study of Automobile

Habitation
Michael Bull 357

Part V: Living and Tbinking with Music

21 Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes

of the Black Atlantic
Paul GUroy 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

21 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