Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq

Belliphonic Sound: A New Perspective of a Solider's Life Dr. Debra Jan Bibel As music reviewer, I have a deep appreciation of ambient sound and its effects on memory and physiology. This unique and important book strikes a chord because even though we have not heard the sound of a Huey [Bell UH-1 Iroquois] helicopter in decades (archived on YouTube), the blade's particular baritone staccato chopping is etched in my psyche; it induces tension even today, as it epitomizes the Sixties and my own military experience,1967-1976. Author Daughtry is an anthropological ethnomusicologist and his encompassing examination of the sounds and music of a given recent war advances a historic yet hardly exami. "Five Stars" according to Isaac Martin. An excellent and fascinating ethnographic inquiry into the weaponization of music in Iraq.. PTE said Five Stars. Fascinating book on the dimensions of sound

Listening to War is stunningly smart, informed, and original. Apart from its own awe-inspiring comprehensiveness, the book provides a foundation for continued exploration of such emergent fields as cognitive ecology, extended mind theory, and the relationship between gesture and cognition." -- American Musicological Society. Martin Daughtry has challenged and deeply reconfigured my understanding of sound, and that's not trivial considering that I taught a course called "Sound" for many years. He parses the inhabited, diachronic moment of sonic violence in a way I wouldn't have thought critically possible. "This book is profound and urgently important. This is a rare scholarly book: gripping, haunting, troubling and deeply edifying. In this book he performs an extraordinary trick: he has taken the web of sonic violence that surrounds all in a theatre of war and he has extended the intimate and visceral exper

Martin Daughtry is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and sound studies at New York University. Daughtry is co-editor, with Jonathan Ritter, of Music in thePost-9/11 World (Routledge 2007), and has published essays in Social Text, Ethnomusicology, Music and Politics, Russia

military service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, author J. Two chapters dedicated to wartime music in Iraqi and U.S. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War will expand your understanding of the experience of armed violence, and the experience of sound more generally. At the same time, it provides a discrete window into the lives of individual Iraqis and Americans struggling to orient themselves within the fog of war.. Daughtry examines the dual-edged nature of sound--its potency as a source of information and a source of trauma--within a sophisticated conceptual frame that highlights the affective power of sound and the vulnerability and agency of individual auditors. Martin Daughtry reveals how these populations learned to extract valuable information from the ambient soundscape while struggling with the deleterious effects that it produced in their ears, throughout their bodies, and in their psyches. military contexts show how