Table of Contents

But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound and the SensesVeit ErlmannListening to the Wild Blue Yonder: The Challenges of Acoustic EcologyBruce R. SmithAmbiguous Traces, Mishearing and Auditory SpacePaul CarterLanguage and Nature in Sound AlignmentJanice B. NuckollsRaising Spirits and Restoring Souls: Early Modern Medical Explanations for Music's EffectsPenelope GoukEther Ore: Mining Vibrations in American Modernist MusicDouglas KahnHearing Modernity: Egypt, Islam and the Pious EarCharles HirschkindEdison's Teeth: Touching HearingSteven ConnorThinking about Sound, Proximity, and Distance in Western Experience: The Case of Odysseus's WalkmanMichael BullWriting the World: Acoustical Engineers and the Empire of Sound in the Motion Picture Industry, 1927-1930Emily Thompson

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Also available in hardback, 9781859738238 GBP50.00 (September, 2004)

About the Author

Veit Erlmann is Endowed Chair of Music, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

'There's no doubt in my mind that *Hearing Cultures* will become a classic in the developing field of sound studies. Not only does it offer inquiries into listening and hearing -which are pressing questions in the study of culture-but it also ranges widely across time and space, from Egypt to England, from the sixteenth century to the present. Think of it as mandatory reading, because it will be soon.' Anahid Kassabian, author of Hearing Film