The splash of Icarus : theorizing sound writing/Writing sound theory / Deborah Kapchan
Part One. Writing sound theory. 1. Musicology, performativity, acoustemology / Suzanne G. Cusick ; 2. Acoustic palimpsests / J. Martin Daughtry ; 3. Writing the magnified musicking moment / Michele Kisliuk
Part Two. Memoir and metaphor as method. 4. Listening to resonant words / Alex Waterman ; 5. Sound commitments : extraordinary stories / Tomie Hahn ; 6. Traffic patterns / David Henderson ; 7. In my solitude : jazz song as "Sound Writing" / Carol Muller
Part Three. Theorizing sound writing. 8. Women out loud : religious performance in Islamic Indonesia / Anne K. Rasmussen ; 9. "Where the transcendent breaks into time" : toward a theology of sound in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ochá / Katherine Johanna Hagedorn ; 10. Almost imperceptible rhythms and stuff like that : the power of affect in live performance / Ana Pais
Part Four. Listening and witness. 11. Deadly soundscapes : scripts of lethal force and Lo-Fi death / Deborah Wong ; 12. Listening acts : witnessing the pain (and praise) of others / Deborah Kapchan ; Afterword : sound properties of the written word / Michael Jackson.