Intro; Preface: As a Listener; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Notes for an Audible Geography; Sonorous Tempest; Sensorial Economies, Sonic Regimes; Sound Tables; Itinerary; 2 Clinical Listening and Corporeal Resonance in the Brazilian Belle Époque; Inscription, Body Politic, Body Resonant; Clinical Listening for Race and Place; Fausta and Somnambular Resonance; Placing Sound; 3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Tongues: Speech as Gestural Economy in Havana (1899-1924); Barbarisms; Voice and the Gestural Economy; 4 Rhythm, Diasporas, and the National Popular State

The Scene of a Reading¡Écue-Yamba-Ó! and Its Context; À Paris; Mário de Andrade's Cuba; Nationalism and Polyrhythm in Ensaio sobre a música brasileira (1928); Macunaíma (1928) and the Impossibility of Synthesis; Music, Opiate of the Masses; Conclusion: Teste ao samba-Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, 1939; 5 Noises in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema; February 17, 1962; Toma chocolate, paga lo que debes; Elemento; Monstros; Tiros; 6 Epilogue: (Re)Sonorous Tempest; Bibliography; Index