Listening to war
Subtitle: sound, music, trauma and survival in wartime Iraq
By: J. Martin Daughtry
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780199361496
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Music and the war; Sound; Music and war; Physiological effect; Music; Psychological aspects; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Armed Forces
Notes: "Glossary": pages 321-323.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337 )and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Composing thoughts on sound and violence; title: Fragment #1. The presence of mind to save an ear : Ali's story; title: Sonic materiel. Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears : the elements of wartime audition ; Mapping zones of wartime (in)audition; title: Fragment #2. Stealth and improvisation in the desert : Jason's story; title: Fragment #3. Loudly searching in the resonant darkness : the anatomy of a nighttime house raid; title: Structures of listening, sounding, and emplacement. Auditory regimes ; Sonic campaigns ; Acoustic territories; title: Fragment #4. A fatal mishearing; title: Music, mediation, and survival. Mobile music in the military; title: Fragment #5. From "Hell's bells" to "Silent night" : A conversation about music in the military; title: Fragment #6. Keeping the music turned down low : Shymaa's story; title: A time of troubles for Iraqi music; title: Conclusion; title: Fragment #7. Listening as poiesis : Tareq's story.