Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.Paula Hamilton is adjunct Professor of History at University of Technology, Sydney.

• Introduction: Leaning In[Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton]1. Sound Studies Today: Where Are We Going?[Bruce Johnson]Part I: Sound and Voice2. "The World Wanderings of a Voice": Exhibiting the Cylinder Phonograph in Australasia[Henry Reece]3. "Are You Sitting Comfortably?": The Changing Position of Storytellers on Early Australian Radio [Jennifer Bowen]4. Lindbergh’s Voice[David Goodman]5. Noisy Classrooms and the "Quiet Corner": The Modern School, Sound and the Senses[Kate Darian-Smith]Part II: Sound and Violence6. Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Voice, Power and Sexual Violence in Penal New South Wales [Penny Russell]7. Startling Reports: Gunfire as Social Soundscape in Early Colonial Australia [Diane Collins]8. Sounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris During World War II[Joy Damousi]9. Hearing the 1965–66 Indonesian Anti-Communist Repression: Sensory History and Its Possibilities[Vannessa Hearman]10. "For a Few Seconds, Imagine": An Aural Experience of Six Days of Terror at the Stadium of Chile, 12–17 September 1973[Peter Read]Part III: Sensory Memories11. "Big Smoke Stacks": Competing Memories of the Sounds and Smells of Industrial Heritage[Lisa Murray]12. Intimate Strangers: Multisensorial Memories of Working in the Home[Paula Hamilton]13. Botanical Memory: Materiality, Affect, and Western Australian Plant Life[John Charles Ryan]14. "If I Ever Hear It, It Takes Me Straight Back There": Music, Autobiographical Memory, Space and Place[Lauren Istvandity]15. Seeing in Black and White: Visualising "Shadow Sisters" Among Metaphors of Light and Dark[Emma Dortins]