Michael C. Heller is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s and founding editor of the journal Jazz and Culture.

• ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction PART I: LOUDNESS AND SILENCE 1. Between Silence and Pain: Loudness and the Affective Encounter 2. Let’s Listen to Nothing: Silence and the Anechoic Chamber 3. Silencing and Alternative Silences PART II: TEXTUAL INTERFERENCE 4. Projecting Results: Opera Supertitles and the People Who Hated Them 5. Diaries and Postcards: Archival Privilege, Empathy, and Intimacy PART III: DEATH AND DEADNESS 6. Deploying Deadness in Louis Armstrong’s House 7. Tape Death: Mourning Sounds We Never Heard Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index