Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th- century Europe / edited by Daniel Morat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Sound history in perspective -- Futures of hearing pasts / Mark M. Smith -- Part II. Literature, science, and sound technologies in the 19th century -- English beat : the stethoscopic era's sonic traces / John M. Picker -- The human telephone : physiology, neurology, and sound technologies / Anthony Enns -- Part III. Sound objects as artifacts of attraction -- Listening to the horn : on the cultural history of the phonograph and the gramophone / Stefan Gauss -- Phones, horns, and "audio hoods" as media of attraction : early sound histories in Vienna between 1883 and 1933 / Christine Ehardt -- Part IV. Music listening in the laboratory and in the concert hall -- From the piano pestilence to the phonograph solo : four case studies of musical expertise in the laboratory and on the city street / Alexandra E. Hui -- The invention of silence : audience behavior in Berlin and London in the nineteenth century / Sven Oliver Møller -- Part V. The sounds of World War I -- Cheers, songs, and marching sounds : acoustic mobilization and collective affects at the beginning of World War I / Daniel Morat -- Listening on the home front : music and the production of social meaning in German concert halls during World War I / Hansjakob Ziemer -- Part VI. Auditory cultures in the interwar period -- In storms of steel : the soundscape of World War I and its impact on auditory media culture during the Weimar period / Axel Volmar -- Sound aesthetics and the global imagination in German media culture around 1930 / Carolyn Birdsall -- Neurasthenia, civilization and the sounds of modern life : narratives of nervous illness in the interwar campaign against noise / James Mansell -- Part VII. The sounds of World War II -- The silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II : ecology, semiotics and politics of urban sound / Annelies jacobs -- Notes on contributors.