Acknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 The Rise of the Binaural Listener: Spatial Hearing in the Nineteenth Century 17 3 Powers of Hearing: Acoustic Defense and Technologies of Listening during the First World War 37 4 Sound and Music in Three Dimensions: Spectacular Stereophony at Bell Telephone Laboratories 61 5 Psycho-Acoustics: Sound Control, Emotional Control, and Sonic Warfare 83 6 From a Poetics to a Politics of Space: Spatial Music and Sound Installation Art 105 7 Mapping the Acoustic City: Noise Mapping and Sound Mapping 125 8 Sonic Urbanism in Beirut 151 9 Epilogue 169 Notes 173 References 185 Index 213
Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford.