Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq
- Author: Daughtry, James Martin
Listening to War is an original if deeply idiosyncratic book —
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Contents
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Composing Thoughts on Sound and Violence
- -In Lieu of an Epigraph: Sound-centered Memories of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- -The Belliphonic
- -Intellectual Predecessors
- -A Necessary Detour
- -Approaches and Challenges
- Fragment #1: The Presence of Mind to Save an Ear: Ali's Story
- Section I: Sonic Materiel
- Chapter 1: Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Elements of Wartime Audition
- -Charting the Belliphonic
- -Listening, Structure, and Positionality
- -Vehicular Sounds
- -Communications
- -Civilian Sounds
- -Weapons
- Chapter 2: Mapping Zones of Wartime (In)audition
- -The Zone of the Audible Inaudible
- -The Narrational Zone
- -The Tactical Zone
- -The Trauma Zone
- -A Complicating Factor: Iraqi Civilian Auditors
- -Another Complicating Factor: Sound and Psychological Trauma
- -Conclusion
- Fragment #2: Stealth and Improvisation in the Desert: Jason's Story
- Fragment #3: Loudly Searching in the Resonant Darkness: The Anatomy of a Nighttime House Raid
- Section II: Structures of Listening, Sounding, and Emplacement
- Introduction to section II
- Chapter 3: Auditory Regimes
- -Ideals of Military Audition
- -National Audition
- -Oblique Indoctrination of Belliphonic Ears
- -Situational Awareness
- -The Inclusive Auditory Regime of Iraqi Civilians
- -Auditory Literacy, Competence, Virtuosity
- -Incommensurability
- Chapter 4: Sonic Campaigns
- -Sound (and Violence)
- -Violence (and Sound)
- -The Omnidirectionality of Sound and Violence
- -Sonic Campaigns
- Chapter 5: Acoustic Territories
- -Emplacement, Displacement, Transplacement
- -Sound and Territoriality
- -The Virtual Acoustic Territory of Recorded Sound
- -The Radiant Acoustic Territories of Wartime
- -The Resonant Acoustic Territories of Baghdad
- -The Resonant Acoustic Territory of the body
- -Life at the Intersection of Regime, Campaign and Territory
- Fragment #4: Fatal Mishearing
- Section III: Music, Mediation, and Survival
- Chapter 6: Mobile Music in the Military
- -Introducing the Wartime iPod
- -A Century of Recorded Music on the Battlefield
- -iPods in the Iraq War
- -Amping Up, Staying Focused, Cooling Down: Technologies of Self-regulation in Combat
- -Moving Bodies, Loosening Tongues, Adjusting Crosshairs: Technologies for Manipulating Others in Combat
- -Concluding Thoughts
- Fragment #5: From Hell's Bells to Silent Night : A Conversation about Music in the Military
- Fragment #6: Keeping the Music Turned Down Low: Shymaa's Story
- Chapter 7: A Time of Troubles for Iraqi Music
- -Iraq's Musical Legacy
- -Post-invasion Challenges
- -Political Violence
- -Sectarian Violence
- -U.S. Forces Targeting Music
- -The Attenuated Acoustic Territory of Iraqi Musical Practice
- Conclusion: The Amplitude of Violence
- Fragment #7: Listening as Poiesis: Tareq's Story
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index