02132nam a22001697a 4500020001800000082001800018245011700036260005500153300004200208504005100250505154200301650001301843650001601856700003401872700002501906700003101931  a9780197511138  a617.807 5 TKA  aTesting hearing : bthe making of modern aurality / cEdited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui.  aNew York, NY : bOxford University Press, c[2020]  avi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aTesting Hearing: An Introduction
Alexandra Hui, Mara Mills, and Viktoria Tkaczyk

Sorting and Screening Human Hearers:
Testing the Culturally Molded Ear

Testing Hearing with Speech
Mara Mills

The Testing of a Hundred Listeners: Otto Abraham's Studies on "Absolute Tone Consciousness"
Viktoria Tkaczyk

Murray Island versus Aberdeenshire: Contextualizing the Cross-Cultural Hearing Tests of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1898-1899
Sebastian Klotz


Designing Instruments, Calibrating machines

Hearing Perfection
Emily I. Dolan

Opelt's Siren and the Technologies of Musical Hearing
Alexander Rehding

The Software Passes the Test When the User Fails It: Constructing Digital Models of Analog Signal Processors
Jonathan Sterne


Managing Sound, Assessing Space

To Hear As I Do: The Concessions of Hearing in Taiwan's Noise Management System
Jennifer Hsieh

Testing Spatial Hearing and the Development of Kunstkopf Technology, 1957-1981
Stefan Krebs

Absorption, Transmission, Reflection: Testing Materials in the Laboratory
Roland Wittje


World as Testbed:
Testing beyond Human Auditory Perception

Of Silent Sirens and Pied Pipers: Auditory Thresholds and High-Frequency Technologies of Animal Control
Joeri Bruyninckx

Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds from World War I to the Cold War
Lino Camprubi and Alexandra Hui

This Is Not a Test: Listening with Gunther Anders in the Nuclear Age
Benjamin Steege

Afterword
Hans-Joerg Rheinberger and Trevor Pinch  aHearing.  aAudiometry.  aHui, Alexandra, 1980- editor.  aMills, Mara, editor.  aTkaczyk, Viktoria, editor.