Chapter 1: Past sounds

Robert T. Beyer, Sounds of Our Times: Two Hundred Years of Acoustics (Springer, 1999).

David Hendy, Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening (Profile Books, 2014).

Mark M. Smith (ed.), Hearing History: A Reader (University of Georgia Press, 2004).

Chapter 2: The nature of sound

Trevor Cox, Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound (The Bodley Head, 2014).

Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Daniel R. Raichel, The Science and Applications of Acoustics (Springer, 2006).

Thomas D. Rossing, Richard F. Moore, and Paul A. Wheeler, The Science of Sound (Addison Wesley, 2001).

Jonathan Sterne, The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012).

Chapter 3: Sounds in harmony

Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a

Human Obsession (Atlantic Books, 2008).

John Powell, How Music Works: A Listener’s Guide to Harmony, Keys, Broken Chords, Perfect Pitch and the Secrets of a Good Tune (Particular Books, 2010).

Chapter 4: Hearing sound

David Howard and Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (Focal Press, 2000).

William Yost, Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction (BRILL, 2013).

Chapter 5: Electronic sound

F. Alton Everest and Ken C. Pohlmann, Master Handbook of Acoustics (Tab Electronics, 2009).

Roland Gelatt, The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877–1977 (Cassell, 2nd edition, 1977).

Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music (Granta, 2010).

Chapter 6: Ultrasound and infrasound

Dale Ensminger and Leonard J. Bond, Ultrasonics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications (CRC Press, 2011).

Vivien Gibbs, Ultrasound Physics and Technology: How, Why and When (Churchill Livingstone, 2009).

Tim Leighton, The Acoustic Bubble (Academic Press, 1994).

Chapter 7: Sound underwater and underground

Xavier Lurton, An Introduction to Underwater Acoustics: Principles and Applications (Springer Praxis Books, 2010).

Robert J. Urick, Principles of Underwater Sound (Peninsula Publishing, 2013).

Chapter 8: Sound out of place

Mike Goldsmith, Discord: The Story of Noise (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Garrett Keizer, The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want (Public Affairs, 2012).

Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia (Picador, 2011).

John Stewart, Francis McManus, Nigel Rodgers, Val Weedon, and Arline Bronzaft, Why Noise Matters: A Worldwide Perspective on the Problems, Policies and Solutions (Routledge, 2011).