Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Professor for the History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, and Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University

Viktoria Tkaczyk is Professor of Media and Knowledge Technologies at Humboldt University in Berlin. Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who works at the intersection of disability studies and media studies. Alexandra Hui is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University and Co-Editor of the journal Isis.

Joeri Bruyninckx, Maastricht University
Lino Camprubí, Universidad de Sevilla
Emily Dolan, Brown University
Jennifer Hsieh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University
Sebastian Klotz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stefan Krebs, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Mara Mills, New York University
Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Alexander Rehding, Harvard University
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Benjamin Steege, Columbia University
Viktoria Tkaczyk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Roland Wittje, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

"[Testing Hearings] narratives are so convincing and insightful because they are rooted in long-standing interdisciplinarytraditions ofresearch in studies of science and technology, urban studies, music an musicology, and because they draw on rigorous research in archives that have been maderelevant through a focus on sound and hearing. The authors are able to ask new questions about sound and hearing because they can comfortably navigate claims and approaches at the intersections of fields of which they have intimate knowledge." - Karin Bijsterveld, Journal of the Royal Musical Association

"This book shows that testing has long been critically embedded at the level of infrastructures...The second major intervention of this volume is its attention to the epistemic value of the aural to scientific practice. By bringing sound studies into conversation with history of science, this collection provides a new framework for analyzing the "co-creation of modern epistemic and auditory cultures" (p. 2). This broad framework aligns with a global focus, and this breadth reveals how science happens outside of traditional testing arenas. Testing hearing takes place not in laboratories but in laundromats, on streets, in submarines, studios, stages, and societies." - Coreen McGuire, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society

"Highly Recommended." - M. Anderson, Southern Oregon University, CHOICE

"That hearing norms are 'built into all manner of audio apparatus, from telephones to stereo speakers' is one of many insights in this intriguing interdisciplinary collection. Historians, having too long focused on technology's visual aspects, can surely benefit from understanding the configurational ramifications of the aural too. Testing Hearing helpfully turns our attention to consider how the power relations of listening and hearing are mediated by technologies ... the historicist volume reviewed here breaks new ground in focusing on the epistemic and politically charged issues of testing hearing." - Graeme Gooday, Technology & Culture

"Comprehensive, multifaceted and absorbing, Testing Hearing is a major achievement, destined to become a classic of sound studies and beyond." - Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin; Editor, Sound Studies