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Listening to War - Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Hardcover)
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Listening to War - Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Hardcover)
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To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is,
among other things, to have listened to it-and to have listened
through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in
Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of
listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of
ethnographic interviews with U.S. military service members and
Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq,
author J. 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. 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. By theorizing
violence through the prism of sound and sound through the prism of
violence, Daughtry provides a productive new vantage point for
examining these strangely conjoined phenomena. Two chapters
dedicated to wartime music in Iraqi and U.S. military contexts show
how music was both an important instrument of the military campaign
and the victim of a multitude of violent acts throughout the war. 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.
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