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Listening to war : sound, music, trauma and survival in wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry.
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- Author/Creator:
- Daughtry, J. Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Music and the war.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Music in the army.
- Sound--Psychological aspects.
- Sound.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Fragment #1 The Presence of Mind to Save an Ear: Alt's Story 27
- Section I Sonic Matériel
- 1 Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Elements of Wartime Audition 33
- Charting the Belliphonic 33
- Listening, Structure, and Positionality 36
- Vehicular Sounds 41
- Communications 47
- Civilian Sounds 56
- Weapons 63
- 2 Mapping Zones of Wartime (In)audition 76
- The Audible Inaudible 77
- The Narrational Zone 80
- The Tactical Zone 88
- The Trauma Zone 92
- A Complicating Factor: Iraqi Civilian Auditors 95
- Another Complicating Factor: Sound and Psychological Trauma 98
- Conclusion 101
- Fragment #2 Stealth and Improvisation in the Desert: Jason's Story 103
- Fragment #3 Loudly Searching in the Resonant Darkness: The Anatomy of a Nighttime House Raid 110
- Section II Structures of Listening, Sounding, and Emplacement
- Introduction to Section II: The Auditory Regimes, Sonic Campaigns, and Acoustic Territories of Operation Iraqi Freedom 121
- 3 Auditory Regimes 128
- Ideals of Military Audition 130
- National Audition 139
- Oblique Indoctrination of Belliphonic Ears 141
- Situational Awareness 142
- The Inclusive Auditory Regime of Iraqi Civilians 147
- Auditory Literacy, Competence, Virtuosity 150
- Incommensurability 151
- 4 Sonic Campaigns 159
- Sound (and Violence) 160
- Violence (and Sound) 165
- The Omnidirectionality of Sound and Violence 170
- Sonic Campaigns 174
- 5 Acoustic Territories 188
- Emplacement, Displacement, Transplacement 188
- Sound and Territoriality 192
- The Virtual Acoustic Territory of Recorded Sound 193
- The Radiant Acoustic Territories of Wartime 199
- The Resonant Acoustic Territories of Baghdad 201
- The Resonant Acoustic Territory of the Body 207
- Life at the Intersection of Regime, Campaign, and Territory 210
- Fragment #4 A Fatal Mishearing 213
- Section III Music, Mediation, and Survival
- 6 Mobile Music in the Military 219
- Introducing the Wartime iPod 220
- A Century of Recorded Music on the Battlefield 225
- iPods in the Iraq War 227
- Amping Up, Staying Focused, Cooling Down: iPods as Technologies of Self-Regulation in Combat 228
- Moving Bodies, Loosening Tongues, Adjusting Crosshairs: iPods as Technologies for Manipulating Others in Combat 238
- Concluding Thoughts 246
- Fragment #5 From "Hell's Bells" to "Silent Night": A Conversation about Music in the Military 248
- Fragment #6 Keeping the Music Turned Down Low: Shymaa's Story 254
- 7 A Time of Troubles for Iraqi Music 258
- Iraq's Musical Legacy 259
- Post-invasion Challenges 261
- Political Violence 263
- Sectarian Violence 263
- US Forces Targeting Music 267
- The Attenuated Acoustic Territory of Iraqi Musical Practice 269
- Conclusion 271
- Fragment #7 Listening as Poiesis: Tareq's Story 275.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199361519
- 0199361517
- Publisher Number:
- 99979106879
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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