Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. 1. Sonic Imaginations / Jonathan Sterne -- Pt. 1. Hearing, Listening, Deafness Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Auditory Dimension / Don Ihde -- Ch. 3. Noise: The Political Economy of Music / Jacques Attali -- Ch. 4. Contradicting Media: Toward a Political Phenomenology of Listening / Jody Berland -- Ch. 5. The Three Listening Modes / Michel Chion -- Ch. 6. Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- Ch. 7. The Ontology of Vibrational Force / Steve Goodman -- Ch. 8. Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization / Mara Mills -- Ch. 9. Following You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media / Kate Crawford -- Pt. 2. Spaces, Sites, Scapes -- Ch. 10. The Soundscape / R. Murray Schafer -- Ch. 11. The Walkman Effect / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Ch. 12. Sound, Modernity and History / Emily Thompson -- Ch. 13. No Corner for the Devil to Hide / Richard Cullen Rath -- Ch. 14. The Soundproof Study / John Picker -- Ch. 15. Listening to Machines: Industrial Noise, Hearing Loss and the Cultural Meaning of Sound / Karin Bijsterveld -- Ch. 16. Anthropologist Underwater: Immersive Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs and Transductive Ethnography / Stefan Helmreich -- Ch. 17. Auditory Awareness as an Extension of Religion / Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter -- Ch. 18. The Audio-Visual iPod / Michael Bull -- Pt. 3. Transduce and Record -- Ch. 19. The Sound of Music in the Era of Its Electronic Reproducibility / John Mowitt -- Ch. 20. Four and a Half Film Fallacies / Rick Altman -- Ch. 21. Gramophone / Friedrich Kittler -- Ch. 22. Fidelity Versus Intelligibility / James Lastra -- Ch. 23. Shaping the Synthesizer / Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco -- Ch. 24. The Recording Studio as Fetish / Louise Meintjes -- Ch. 25. New Media Publics / Lisa Gitelman -- Ch. 26. Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane / Jason Stanyek and Benjamin Piekut -- Pt. 4. Collectivities and Couplings -- Ch. 27. This is the Voice of Algeria / Frantz Fanon -- Ch. 28. The Culture of the Telephone / Michale Martin -- Ch. 29. Radiating Culture / Michelle Hilmes -- Ch. 30. Reach Out Someone: the Telephonic Uncanny / John Durham Peters -- Ch. 31. Cellular Disability: Consumption, Design and Access / Gerard Goggin -- Ch. 32. Social Transculturation, Epistemologies of Purification and the Aural Public Sphere in Latin America / Ana María Ochoa Gautier -- Pt. 5. The Sonic Arts: Aesthetics, Experience, Interpretation -- Ch. 33. Desire, Power and the Sonorous Landscape / Richard Leppert -- Ch. 34. Science, Technology and the Avant-Garde / Georgina Born -- Ch. 35. Noises of the Avant-Garde / Douglas Kahn -- Ch. 36. Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality / Kodwo Eshun. Ch. 37. Starship Africa / Michael Veal -- Ch. 38. Auditory Relations / Brandon LaBelle -- Ch. 39. Toward a Feminist Historiography of Electronic Music / Tara Rodgers -- Pt. 6. Voice -- Ch. 40. The Voice the Keeps Silence / Jacques Derrida -- Ch. 41. The Grain of the Voice / Roland Barthes -- Ch. 42. "Feenin": Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music / Alexander Weheliye -- Ch. 43. Multiple Voices / Adriana Cavarero -- Ch. 44. The Frenzy of the Audible: Pleasure, Authenticity and Recorded Laughter / Jacob Smith -- Ch. 45. The Linguistics of the Voice / Mladen Dolar.

The Sound Studies Reader is a groundbreaking anthology blending recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' with earlier and lesser known scholarship on sound. The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them with key themes and concepts in sound studies. Individual section introductions give readers further background on the essays and an extensive up to date bibliography for further reading in 'sound studies' make this an original and accessible guide to the field.