David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and is author of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Susan Strasser is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash.

Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense
—David Suisman

PART I: AFFECT AND THE POLITICS OF LISTENING
1. Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s
—David Goodman
2. ''Her Voice a Bullet'': Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II
—Ann Elizabeth Pfau and David Hochfelder
3. ''Savage Dissonance'': Gender, Voice, and Women's Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930-1945
—Christine Ehrick

PART II: SONIC OBJECTS
4. Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930-1952
—Alex Cummings
5. High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950-1961
—Eric D. Barry

PART III: HEARING ORDER
6. Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II
—Derek W. Vaillant
7. An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s
—Angela M. Blake
PART IV: SOUND COMMERCE
8. ''The People's Orchestra'': Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s
—Chris Rasmussen
9. Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio
—Bill Kirkpatrick
10. The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States
—Michael Stamm

Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser