Listening to War
Listening to War To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have…
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Listening to War
To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. 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.
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 service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, author J. 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