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Part 1: Sound engagements: Hearing loss-Descartes's resonant subject-Cross polytopes and octaphons more agreeable-each echoing opening, each muffled closure-Sounding out the city-Sound studies meet deaf studies-Making sense of race-Words as persuasive art-Situative signals in sonic conflicts; Part II: Sound methodologies: Tape recorder-Hearing urban regeneration-Sonic geographies, soundwalks and more-than-representational methods-Walking through the woodlands; Part III: Spaces of sound: The auditory makers of the village-The telephone booth-Know it well, know it differently, new sonic practices in late 19th century theatre-going-Memories of sound-Busking and negotiations of urban acoustic space in South Bank, London-Aural postcards, sound memory and the city; Part IV: Conflicting sounds: Sectarian sound and cultural identity in Northern Ireland-Noise of the past, spatial interruptions of war, mation and memory-Unruly voices in the museum-'A few feet of film run backwards', tracing the sonic construction of shellfire, 1914-30-War, cognition and the media; Part V: Music, technologies and materialities: Between the blues and the blues dance-Calypso kings-Click, beat, body-Auditory and technological culture, the fine-tuning of the dancehall sound system'set'-Remix redux-The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music-Music as torture-Going after the kids, music and the'extreme'of Christian fundamentialism-Resistance; Part VI: Economic sounds: The racket-The sounds of economic change-Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of digital sampling.