J Martin Daughtry

Listening to War

Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq

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Produktbeschreibung

A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War offers a broad theorization of sound, violence, music, listening and place, while also providing a discrete window into the lives of individual Iraqis and Americans struggling to orient themselves within the fog of war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780199361496
• ISBN-10: 0199361495
• Artikelnr.: 47665583

Autorenporträt

J. Martin Daughtry is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and sound studies at New York University. His work centers on acoustic violence; voice; listening; sound studies; the Iraq war, and musics of the Russian-speaking world. Daughtry is co-editor, with Jonathan Ritter, of Music in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge 2007), and has published essays in Social Text, Ethnomusicology, Music and Politics, Russian Literature, Poetics Today, and a number of edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

* Dedication
* Note on Transliteration
* Introduction: Composing Thoughts on Sound and Violence
* -In Lieu of an Epigraph: Sound-centered Memories of Operation Iraqi
Freedom
* -The Belliphonic
* -Intellectual Predecessors
* -A Necessary Detour
* -Approaches and Challenges
* Fragment #1: The Presence of Mind to Save an Ear: Ali's Story
* Section I: Sonic Matériel
* Chapter 1: Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Elements of
Wartime Audition
* -Charting the Belliphonic
* -Listening, Structure, and Positionality
* -Vehicular Sounds
* -Communications
* -Civilian Sounds
* -Weapons
* Chapter 2: Mapping Zones of Wartime (In)audition
* -The Zone of the Audible Inaudible
* -The Narrational Zone
* -The Tactical Zone
* -The Trauma Zone
* -A Complicating Factor: Iraqi Civilian Auditors
* -Another Complicating Factor: Sound and Psychological Trauma
* -Conclusion
* Fragment #2: Stealth and Improvisation in the Desert: Jason's Story
* Fragment #3: Loudly Searching in the Resonant Darkness: The Anatomy
of a Nighttime House Raid
* Section II: Structures of Listening, Sounding, and Emplacement
* Introduction to section II
* Chapter 3: Auditory Regimes
* -Ideals of Military Audition
* -National Audition
* -Oblique Indoctrination of Belliphonic Ears
* -Situational Awareness
* -The Inclusive Auditory Regime of Iraqi Civilians
* -Auditory Literacy, Competence, Virtuosity
* -Incommensurability
* Chapter 4: Sonic Campaigns
* -Sound (and Violence)
* -Violence (and Sound)
* -The Omnidirectionality of Sound and Violence
* -Sonic Campaigns
* Chapter 5: Acoustic Territories
* -Emplacement, Displacement, Transplacement
* -Sound and Territoriality
* -The Virtual Acoustic Territory of Recorded Sound
* -The Radiant Acoustic Territories of Wartime
* -The Resonant Acoustic Territories of Baghdad
* -The Resonant Acoustic Territory of the body
* -Life at the Intersection of Regime, Campaign and Territory
* Fragment #4: Fatal Mishearing
* Section III: Music, Mediation, and Survival
* Chapter 6: Mobile Music in the Military
* -Introducing the Wartime iPod
* -A Century of Recorded Music on the Battlefield
* -iPods in the Iraq War
* -Amping Up, Staying Focused, Cooling Down: Technologies of
Self-regulation in Combat
* -Moving Bodies, Loosening Tongues, Adjusting Crosshairs: Technologies
for Manipulating Others in Combat
* -Concluding Thoughts
* Fragment #5: From "Hell's Bells " to "Silent Night ": A Conversation
about Music in the Military
* Fragment #6: Keeping the Music Turned Down Low: Shymaa's Story
* Chapter 7: A Time of Troubles for Iraqi Music
* -Iraq's Musical Legacy
* -Post-invasion Challenges
* -Political Violence
* -Sectarian Violence
* -U.S. Forces Targeting Music
* -The Attenuated Acoustic Territory of Iraqi Musical Practice
* Conclusion: The Amplitude of Violence
* Fragment #7: Listening as Poiesis: Tareq's Story
* Acknowledgments
* Glossary
* Works Cited
* Index