Listening and Voice

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 Listening and Voice
Phenomenologies of Sound
SECOND EDITION

Don Ihde

State University of New York Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ihde, Don, 1934–

Listening and voice : phenomenologies of sound / Don Ihde. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7914-7255-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-7914-7256-9
(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Phenomenology. 2. Listening (Philosophy) 3. Voice
(Philosophy) I. Title.

B829.5.I34 2007
128'.3—dc22

2006100232

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 For
Judith Lochhead,
my longtime colleague and collaborator
and the
Stony Brook Music Department
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 Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Preface to the SUNY Press Edition xi
Introduction (to the Original) xix

PART I INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 In Praise of Sound 3
Chapter 2 Under the Signs of Husserl and Heidegger 17
Chapter 3 First Phenomenology 25

PART II DESCRIPTION
Chapter 4 The Auditory Dimension 49
Chapter 5 The Shapes of Sound 57
Chapter 6 The Auditory Field 73
Chapter 7 Timeful Sound 85
Chapter 8 Auditory Horizons 103

PART III THE IMAGINATIVE MODE

Chapter 9 The Polyphony of Experience 115
Chapter 10 Auditory Imagination 131
Chapter 11 Inner Speech 137
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PART IV VOICE
Chapter 12 The Center of Language 147
Chapter 13 Music and Word 155
Chapter 14 Silence and Word 161
Chapter 15 Dramaturgical Voice 167
Chapter 16 The Face, Voice, and Silence 177

PART V PHENOMENOLOGIES

Chapter 17 A Phenomenology of Voice 185

Chapter 18 Auditory Imagination 203
Chapter 19 Listening 217

PART VI ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 20 Bach to Rock: Amplification 227
Chapter 21 Jazz Embodied: Instrumentation 235
Chapter 22 Embodying Hearing Devices: Digitalization 243
Chapter 23 Embodiment, Technologies, and Musics 251

Notes 265
Index 273