| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 344 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
This is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with US military service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, the book reveals how these populations learned to extract valuable information from the ambient soundscape while struggling with the deleterious effects that it produced in their ears, throughout their bodies, and in their psyches |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Music and the war
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Psychological aspects
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Music in the army.
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Sound -- Psychological aspects.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Music and war
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Music in the army
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Music -- Psychological aspects
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Psychological aspects
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Sound -- Psychological aspects
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Iraq
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199361533 |
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0199361533 |
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9780199361519 |
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0199361517 |
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