Index

Contents

     Introduction .Closed Grooves, Open Ears vii
     JAMES A. STEINTRAGER

     Preface to the French Edition of 2010 xxvii

  I  hearing

  1) Listening Awakes 3
  2) The Ear 16
  3) Sound and Time 29

 II  a divided world

  4) Voice, Language, and Sounds 45
  5) Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction? 55

III  the wheel of causes

  6) The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition 83
  7) Sound and Its Cause: Causal Listening and Figurative Listening 101
  8) Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects 121

 IV  sound transformed

  9) How Technology Has Changed Sound 131
 10) The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision 150

  V  listening, expressing

 11)  Object and Non-Object: Two Poles 169
 12) Between Doing and Listening: Naming 212

     Notes 243 
     Glossary 265 
     Bibliography 269 
     Index 275