Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it—and to have listened through it.

Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. military service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, author J. Martin Daughtry reveals how th...