When people attend classical music concerts today, they sit and listen in silence, offering no audible reactions to what they re hearing. We think of that as normal but, as Darryl Cressman shows in this book, it s the product of a long history of interrelationships between music, social norms, and technology. Using the example of Amsterdam s Royal Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively and analysis of its creation and use offers rich insights into sound studies, media...