List of Figures
Introduction
Daniel Morat
Part I: Sound History in Perspective
Chapter 1. Futures of Hearing Pasts
Mark M. Smith
Part II: Literature, Science, and Sound Technologies in the 19th Century
Chapter 2. English Beat: The Stethoscopic Era's Sonic Traces
John M. Picker
Chapter 3. The Human Telephone: Physiology, Neurology, and Sound Technologies
Anthony Enns
Part III: Sound Objects as Artifacts of Attraction
Chapter 4. Listening to the Horn: On the Cultural History of the Phonograph and the Gramophone
Stefan Gauß
Chapter 5. Phones, Horns, and "Audio Hoods" as Media of Attraction: Early Sound Histories in Vienna between 1883 and 1933
Christine Ehardt
Part IV: Music Listening in the Laboratory and in the Concert Hall
Chapter 6. From the Piano Pestilence to the Phonograph Solo: Four Case Studies of Musical Expertise in the Laboratory and on the City Street
Alexandra E. Hui
Chapter 7. The Invention of Silence: Audience Behavior in Berlin and London in the Nineteenth Century
Sven Oliver Müller
Part V: The Sounds of World War I
Chapter 8. Cheers, Songs, and Marching Sounds: Acoustic Mobilization and Collective Affects at the Beginning of World War I
Daniel Morat
Chapter 9. Listening on the Home Front: Music and the Production of Social Meaning in German Concert Halls
during World War I
Hansjakob Ziemer
Part VI: Auditory Cultures in the Interwar Period
Chapter 10. In Storms of Steel: The Soundscape of World War I and its Impact on Auditory Media Culture During the Weimar Period
Axel Volmar
Chapter 11. Sound Aesthetics and the Global Imagination in German Media Culture around 1930
Carolyn Birdsall
Chapter 12. Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Interwar Campaign against Noise
James Mansell
Part VII: The Sounds of World War II
Chapter 13. The Silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II: Ecology, Semiotics and Politics of Urban Sound
Annelies Jacobs
Notes on Contributors
Index
