Acoustic terrains: an introduction by Matthew Gandy p.7, 1: Urban Soundscapes: Rustications: animals in the urban mix by Steven Connor p.16, Soft coercion, the city, and the recorded female voice by Nina Power p.23, A beautiful noise emerging from the apparatus of an obstacle: trains and the sounds of the Japanese city by David Novak p.27, Strange accumulations: soundscapes of late modernity in J. G. Bollard's The Sound Sweep by Matthew Gandy p.33, 2: Acoustic Flan Erie: Silent city: listening to birds in urban nature by Joeri Bruyninckx p.42, Sonic ecology: the undetectable sounds of the city by Kate E. Jones p.49, Recording the city: Berlin, London, Naples by BJ Nilsen p.55, Eavesdropping by Anders Albrechtslund p.60, 3: Sound Cultures: Of longitude, latitude, and zenith: Los Angeles, Van Halen, and the aesthetics of backyardism by John Scanlan p.68, Helsinki seen through the lenses of the Kourismaki brothers by Tony Mitchell p.74, The echo of the Wall fades: reflections on the Berlin School in the early 1970s by Tim Caspar Boehme p.84, Margins music: lost futures in London's edgelands by Andrew Harris p.91, The sound of Detroit: notes, tones, and rhythms from underground by Louis Moreno p.98, Dancing outside the city: factions of bodies in Goa by Arun Saldanha p.108, Encountering Rrokesheni masculinities: music and lyrics in informal urban public transport vehicles in Zimbabwe by Rekopontswe Mote p.114, Music as bricolage in post socialist Dar es Salaam by Moria Suriano p.124, Singing the praises of power by Bob W White p.131, 4. Acoustic Ecologies: Cinemas' sonic residues by Stephen Barber p.138, Acoustic ecology: Hans Scharoun and modernist experimentation in West Berlin by Sandra Jasper p.145, Stereo city: mobile listening in the 1980s by Heike Weber p.156, Acoustic mapping: notes from the interface by Gascia Ouzounian p.164, The space between: a cartographic experiment by Merijn Royaards p.174, 5. The Politics of Noise: Machines over the garden: flight paths and the suburban pastoral by Michael Flitner p.186, Bad vibrations: infrasound, sonic hauntings, and imperceptible politics by Kelly Ladd p.193, Noise, language, and public protest: the cacerolazos in Buenos Aires by Leondro Minuchin p.201, Acoustic gentrification: the silence of Warsaw's sonic warfare by Joanna Kusiak p.206, I wail, therefore I am by Tripta Chandola p.212