Daughtry, J. Martin - Listening to War

A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War offers a broad theorization of sound, violence, music, listening and place, while also providing a discrete window into the lives of individual Iraqis and Americans struggling to orient themselves within the fog of war.

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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