Just Beyond Listening

Michael C. Heller is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s and founding editor of the journal Jazz and Culture.

Contents

List of Illustrations 

Introduction 

PART I: LOUDNESS AND SILENCE 
1. Between Silence and Pain: Loudness and the Affective Encounter 
2. Let’s Listen to Nothing: Silence and the Anechoic Chamber 
3. Silencing and Alternative Silences 

PART II: TEXTUAL INTERFERENCE 
4. Projecting Results: Opera Supertitles and the People Who Hated Them 
5. Diaries and Postcards: Archival Privilege, Empathy, and Intimacy 

PART III: DEATH AND DEADNESS 
6. Deploying Deadness in Louis Armstrong’s House 
7. Tape Death: Mourning Sounds We Never Heard 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index