Isabella van Elferen is Professor of Music, School Director of Research and Enterprise and Director of the Visconti Studio at Kingston University, UK. She is the author of Mystical Love in the German Baroque (2009), Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny (2012), Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (with Jeffrey Weinstock, 2015), and editor of Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day (2007).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ecologies of Sonorous Difference
2. Index, Icon, Grain
3. Excess, Sublime, Lure
4. Vibration and Vitality
5. Aesthetics of Vibration
Threshold
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