Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Wired Sound and Sonic Cultures -- CHAPTER TWO: Reaching "Overseas": South African Sound Engineers, Technology, and Tradition -- CHAPTER THREE: "The Disc Is Not the Avenue": Schismogenetic Mimesis in Samba Recording -- CHAPTER FOUR: Nigel Pegrum, "Didjeridu-Friendly Sections," and What Constitutes an "Indigenous" CD: An Australian Case Study of Producing "World Music" Recordings -- CHAPTER FIVE: Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice -- CHAPTER SIX: Media as Social Action: Native American Musicians in the Recording Studio -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Engineering Techno-Hybrid Grooves in Two Indonesian Sound Studios -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Short-Circuiting Perceptual Systems: Timbre in Ambient and Techno Music -- CHAPTER NINE: "Heaviness" in the Perception of Heavy Metal Guitar Timbres: The Match of Perceptual and Acoustic Features over Time -- CHAPTER TEN: Mixed Messages: Unsettled Cosmopolitanisms in Nepali Pop -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Soundscape of the Radio: Engineering Modern Songs and Superculture in Nepal -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Music and the Rise of Radio in Twenties America: Technological Imperialism, Socialization, and the Transformation of Intimacy -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Afterword -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.