Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction

2 The Rise of the Binaural Listener: Spatial Hearing in the Nineteenth Century

3 Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Defense and Technologies of Listening during the First World War

4 Sound and Music in Three Dimensions: Spectacular Stereophony at Bell Telephone Laboratories

5 Psycho-Acoustics: Sound Control, Emotional Control, and Sonic Warfare

6 From a Poetics to a Politics of Space: Spatial Music and Sound Installation Art

7 Mapping the Acoustic City: Noise Mapping and Sound Mapping

8 Sonic Urbanism in Beirut

9 Epilogue

Notes

References

Index