Sound Clash

Kara Keeling is an associate professor in the School of Cinematic Arts and in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Josh Kun is an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Sound Technologies and SubjectivitiesChapter 1. Splitting Sight and Sound: Thomas Dewing's A Reading, Gilded Age Women, and the PhonographChapter 2. Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962Chapter 3. "What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?": Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated IndividualsChapter 4. Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB RadioChapter 5. The Recording Studio on Stage: Liveness in Ma Rainey's Black BottomChapter 6. Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal SpacePart II: Sounding Race, Ethnicity, and GenderChapter 7. "An Indian in a White Man's Camp": Johnny Cash's Indian Country MusicChapter 8. Abolitionism's Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American PerformanceChapter 9. Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American OperaChapter 10. Soul Vibrations: Black Music and Black Freedom in Sound and SpaceChapter 11. Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim CrowChapter 12. Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture IndustryPart III: Sound, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere Chapter 13. The "War on Noise": Sound and Space in La Guardia's New YorkChapter 14. Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public SoundscapeChapter 15. Reproducing U.S. Citizenship in Blackboard Jungle: Race, Cold War Liberalism, and the Tape RecorderChapter 16. Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols La MigraChapter 17. The Political Agency of Musical BeautyContributorsIndex