Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Acknowledgments XV
5. INTRODUCTION: MUSIC, REPRESENTATION, AND THE SCANDAL OF THE BODY XIX
6. 1 MUSIC AS A SIGHT IN THE PRODUCTION OF MUSICAL MEANING 1
7. 2 DESIRE, POWER, AND THE SONORIC LANDSCAPE ( Early Modernism and the Politics of Musical Privacy) 15
8. 3 THE POETICS OF ANGUISH, PLEASURE, AND PRESTIGE (Hoarding Sound in a Culture of Silence) 43
9. 4 SOCIAL ORDER AND THE DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION OF MUSIC (The Politics of Sound in the Policing of Gender Construction) 63
10. 5 MUSIC, DOMESTICITY, AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM 91
11. 6 SEXUAL IDENTITY, DEATH, AND THE FAMILY PIANO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 119
12. 7 THE PIANO, MISOGYNY, AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA" 153
13. 8 MALE AGONY: AWAKENING CONSCIENCE 189
14. 9 ASPIRING TO THE CONDITION OF SILENCE (The Iconicity of Music) 213
15. Notes 235
16. Works Cited 287
17. Index 307