Contents

List of Figures

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Somewhere between the signifying and the sublime

Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle

Part one Affective (re)thinking: Sound as affect and affect as sound
1	Non-cochlear sound: On affect and exteriority Will Schrimshaw
2	Felt as thought (or, musical abstraction and the semblance of affect) eldritch Priest
3	My mother’s scream Patricia Ticineto Clough
Part two Hearing, playing, feeling: Music and the organization of affect
4	So transported: Nina Simone, ‘My Sweet Lord’ and the (un)folding of affect Richard Elliott
5	(I can’t get no) affect John Mowitt
6	Listening to the talking cure: Sprechstimme, hypnosis, and the sonic organization of affect Clara Latham
Part three Affects of turbulence
7	Spread the Virus: Affective prophecy in industrial music Dean Lockwood
8	Brace and embrace: Masochism in noise performance Paul Hegarty
9	Three screams Marie Thompson
Part four Palliative sounds and the marketing of affection
10	Music for sleeping Anahid Kassabian
11	Relax, feel good, chill out: The affective distribution of classical music Freya Jarman
12	Quiet sounds and intimate listening: The politics of tiny seductions Ian Biddle

Bibliography

Index