Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality
- Editor: Hui, Alexandra
- Editor: Mills, Mara
- Editor: Tkaczyk, Viktoria
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Contents
- Testing Hearing: An Introduction
- Alexandra Hui, Mara Mills, and Viktoria Tkaczyk
- Sorting and Screening Human Hearers:
- Testing the Culturally Molded Ear
- Testing Hearing with Speech
- Mara Mills
- The Testing of a Hundred Listeners: Otto Abraham's Studies on Absolute Tone Consciousness
- Viktoria Tkaczyk
- Murray Island versus Aberdeenshire: Contextualizing the Cross-Cultural Hearing Tests of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1898-1899
- Sebastian Klotz
- Designing Instruments, Calibrating machines
- Hearing Perfection
- Emily I. Dolan
- Opelt's Siren and the Technologies of Musical Hearing
- Alexander Rehding
- The Software Passes the Test When the User Fails It: Constructing Digital Models of Analog Signal Processors
- Jonathan Sterne
- Managing Sound, Assessing Space
- To Hear As I Do: The Concessions of Hearing in Taiwan's Noise Management System
- Jennifer Hsieh
- Testing Spatial Hearing and the Development of Kunstkopf Technology, 1957-1981
- Stefan Krebs
- Absorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the Laboratory
- Roland Wittje
- World as Testbed:
- Testing beyond Human Auditory Perception
- Of Silent Sirens and Pied Pipers: Auditory Thresholds and High-Frequency Technologies of Animal Control
- Joeri Bruyninckx
- Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds from World War I to the Cold War
- Lino Camprubi and Alexandra Hui
- This Is Not a Test: Listening with Gunther Anders in the Nuclear Age
- Benjamin Steege
- Afterword
- Hans-Jorg Rheinberger and Trevor Pinch