Chapter 1 Futures of Hearing Pasts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Sound History in Perspective
6. Chapter 1 Futures of Hearing Pasts 13
7. Part II: Literature, Science, and Sound Technologies in the Nineteenth Century
8. Chapter 2 English Beat: The Stethoscopic Era’s Sonic Traces 25
9. Chapter 3 The Human Telephone: Physiology, Neurology, and Sound Technologies 46
10. Part III: Sound Objects as Artifacts of Attraction
11. Chapter 4 Listening to the Horn: On the Cultural History of the Phonograph and the Gramophone 71
12. Chapter 5 Phones, Horns, and “Audio Hoods” as Media of Attraction: Early Sound Histories in Vienna between 1883 and 1933 101
13. Part IV : Music Listening in the Laboratory and in the Concert Hall
14. Chapter 6 From the Piano Pestilence to the Phonograph Solo: Four Case Studies of Musical Expertise in the Laboratory and on the City Street 129
15. Chapter 7 The Invention of Silence: Audience Behavior in Berlin and London in the Nineteenth Century 153
16. Part V: The Sounds of World War I
17. Chapter 8 Cheers, Songs, and Marching Sounds: Acoustic Mobilization and Collective Affects at the Beginning of World War I 177
18. Chapter 9 Listening on the Home Front: Music and the Production of Social Meaning in German Concert Halls during World War I 201
19. Part VI: Auditory Cultures in the Interwar Period
20. Chapter 10 In Storms of Steel: The Soundscape of World War I and its Impact on Auditory Media Culture during the Weimar Period 227
21. Chapter 11 Sound Aesthetics and the Global Imagination in German Media Culture around 1930 256
22. Chapter 12 Neurasthenia, Civilization, and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Interwar Campaign against Noise 278
23. Part VII: The Sounds of World War II
24. Chapter 13 The Silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II: Ecology, Semiotics, and Politics of Urban Sound 305
25. Notes on Contributors 325
26. Index 329