Introduction: Composing thoughts on sound and violence
Fragment #1: The presence of mind to save an ear: Ali's story
Section I: Sonic materiel
Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: The elements of wartime audition
Mapping zones of wartime (in)audition
Fragment #2: Stealth and improvisation in the desert: Jason's story
Fragment #3: Loudly searching in the resonant darkness: The anatomy of a nighttime house raid
Section II: Structures of listening, sounding, and emplacement
Fragment #4: A fatal mishearing
Section III: Music, mediation, and survival
Mobile music in the military
Fragment #5: From "Hell's Bells" to "Silent night": A conversation about music in the military
Fragment #6: Keeping the music turned down low: Shymaa's story
A time of troubles for Iraqi music
Fragment #7: Listening as poiesis: Tareq's story.
