Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: New Keys to the World of Sound - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
SECTION I: REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOOR & TEST SITES
1. The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization - Mark M. Smith
2. Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s - Hans-Joachim Braun
3. "Sobbing, whining, rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice - Stefan Krebs
4. Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry - Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld
SECTION II: STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD
5. Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology - Joeri Bruyninckx
6. Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science - Stefan Helmreich
7. A Grey Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920 - Julia Kursell
SECTION III. STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB
8. From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome, and Siren - Myles W. Jackson
9. Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian - Cyrus Mody
10. The Search for the 'Killer Application': Drawing the Boundaries Around the Sonification of Scientific Data - Alexandra Supper
SECTION IV: SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC
11. Inner and Outer Sancta: Ear Plugs and Hospitals - Hillel Schwartz
12. Sounding Bodies: Medical Studies and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives - Tom Rice
13. Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants - Mara Mills
SECTION V: EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO
14. Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games - Mark Grimshaw
15. The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts - William Whittington
16. The Avant-garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s - Timothy Taylor
SECTION VI: CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND
17. Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface - Andreas Fickers
18. From Listening to Distribution: Non-official Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s - Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora
19.The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music - Mark Katz
20. Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com - Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades
SECTION VII: MOVING SOUND AND MUSIC: DIGITAL STORAGE
21. Analog turns Digital: Hip-hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity - Ray Fouche
22. iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia - Michael Bull
23. The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification - Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama
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