Sonic imaginations / Jonathan Sterne -- The auditory dimension / Don Ihde -- Noise : the political economy of music / Jacques Attali -- Contradicting media : toward a political phenomenology of listening / Jody Berland -- The three listening modes / Michael Chion -- Cassette sermons, aural modernities and the Islamic revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- The ontology of vibrational force / Steve Goodman -- Hearing aids and the history of electronics miniaturization / Mara Mills -- Following you : disciplines of listening in social media / Kate Crawford -- The soundscape / R. Murray Schafer -- The Walkman effect / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Sound, modernity and history / Emily Thompson -- No corner for the devil to hide / Richard Cullen Rath -- The soundproof study / John Picker -- Listening to machines : industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound / Karin Bijsterveld -- An anthropologist underwater : immersive soundscapes, submarine cyborgs and transductive ethnography / Stefan Helmreich -- Ancient acoustic spaces / Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter -- The audio-visual iPod / Michael Bull -- The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility / John Mowitt -- Four and a half film fallacies / Rick Altman -- Gramophone / Friedrich Kittler -- Fidelity versus intelligibility / James Lastra -- Shaping the synthesizer / Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco -- The recording studio as fetish / Louise Meintjes -- The phonograph's new media publics / Lisa Gitelman -- Deadness : technologies of the intermundane / Jason Stanyek and Benjamin Piekut -- This is the voice of Algeria / Frantz Fanon -- Gender and early telephone culture / Michèle Martin -- Radio and the imagined community / Michelle Hilmes -- The telephonic uncanny and the problem of communication / John Durham Peters -- Cellular disability : consumption, design and access / Gerard Goggin -- Social transculturation, epistemologies of purification and the aural public sphere in Latin America / Ana María Ochoa Gautier -- Reading the sonoric landscape / Richard Leppert -- Music research and psychoacoustics / Georgina Born -- Noise of the avant-garde / Douglas Kahn -- Operating system for the redesign of sonic reality / Kodwo Eshun -- Starship Africa / Michael Veal -- Auditory relations / Brandon LaBelle -- Toward a feminist historiography of electronic music / Tara Rodgers -- The voice that keeps silence / Jacques Derrida -- The grain of the voice / Roland Barthes -- Desiring machines in black popular music / Alexander Weheliye -- Multiple voices / Adriana Cavarero -- Laughing machines / Jacob Smith -- The linguistics of the voice / Mladen Dolar.