Listening to war : sound, music, trauma, and survival in wartime Iraq /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Daughtry, J. Martin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	2003 - 2011 2003-2011 Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Music and the war. Music > Psychological aspects. Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Psychological aspects. Music in the army. Sound > Psychological aspects. Music and war. Psychological aspects. Sound. Music. Iraq.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Composing thoughts on sound and violence
Fragment #1: The presence of mind to save an ear: Ali's story
Section I: Sonic materiel
Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: The elements of wartime audition
Mapping zones of wartime (in)audition
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
Auditory regimes
Sonic campaigns
Acoustic territories
Fragment #4: A fatal mishearing
Section III: Music, mediation, and survival
Mobile music in the military
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
A time of troubles for Iraqi music
Conclusion
Fragment #7: Listening as poiesis: Tareq's story.

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