Index

Table of Contents:
List of Figures ix
List of Abbreviations for Archival and Other
Historical Materials Cited xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Hello! I         1
1. Machines to Hear for Them 31
2. Techniques of Listening 87
3. Audile Technique and Media 37
4. Plastic Aurality: Technologies into Media I79
5. The Social Genesis of Sound Fidelity 215
6. A Resonant Tomb 287
Conclusion: Audible Futures 335
Notes 353
Bibliography  415
Index 437