Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Hearing What We Want  1
Part I. Suppression  29
1. Tinnitus and Its Aural Remedies  31
Part II. Masking  73
2. Sleep-Mates and Sound Screens: Sound, Speed, and Circulation in Postwar America  75
3. The Ultimate Seashore: Environments and the Nature of Technology  116
4. A Quiet Storm: Orphic Apps and Infocentrism  148
Part III. Cancellation  175
5. Bose QuietComfort and the Mobile Production of Personal Space  177
6. Beats by Dre: Race and the Sonic Interface  198
Conclusion. Wanting What We Hear  220
Notes  235
References  245
Index

“Mack Hagood retunes the field of sound studies, boosting the prominence of environmental and ambient sounds—rain, heartbeats, the hum and whir of white noise—that can now be mobilized as electronic tools. Hagood offers a series of riveting case studies for what he calls orphic media, which ‘fight sound with sound’ to sculpt personal space. The first book to foreground these astonishingly pervasive technologies of sonic self-control, Hush inserts sound into critical debates about affect, ‘filter bubbles,’ and productivity apps. By the end of the book you wonder how sound could have previously been so overlooked in these arenas.” — Mara Mills

“Steering a path between ethnography and history, Hush considers the strange status of sounds to be heard but not listened to. Throughout, Mack Hagood wonders at the affective power of sound as a presence or absence and as a tool for listeners as they negotiate their embedded existence in the world with the social demand to be autonomous, self-managing subjects. Hush is challenging and imaginative; read it and you will learn to think differently about sound, noise, silence, and meaning.” — Jonathan Sterne

“A fascinating study of our efforts to control sound and, through it, our emotional and political lives. As Mack Hagood shows, the sonic and the social are never far apart and are best thought together.” — Fred Turner

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