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Contributors | p. xi |
About the companion website | p. xiii |
New Keys to the World of Sound | p. 3 |
Reworking Machine Sound: Shop Floors and Test Sites | |
The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization | p. 39 |
Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s | p. 58 |
"Sobbing, Whining, Rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice | p. 79 |
Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry | p. 102 |
Staging Sound for Science and Art: The Field | |
Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology | p. 127 |
Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science | p. 151 |
A Gray Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Fieldwork, 1900-1920 | p. 176 |
Staging Sound for Science and Art: The Lab | |
From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, the Metronome, and the Siren | p. 201 |
Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian | p. 224 |
The Search for the "Killer Application": Drawing the Boundaries around the Sonification of Scientific Data | p. 249 |
Speaking for the Body: The Clinic | |
Inner and Outer Sancta: Earplugs and Hospitals | p. 273 |
Sounding Bodies: Medical Students and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives | p. 298 |
Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants | p. 320 |
Editing Sound: The Design Studio | |
Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games | p. 347 |
The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts | p. 367 |
The Avant-Garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 387 |
Consuming Sound and Music: The Home and Beyond | |
Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface | p. 411 |
From Listening to Distribution: Nonofficial Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s | p. 440 |
The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music | p. 459 |
Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com | p. 480 |
Moving Sound and Music: Digital Storage | |
Analog Turns Digital: Hip-Hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity | |
iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia | p. 526 |
The Recording That Never Wanted to Be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification | p. 544 |
Index | p. 561 |
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