1. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, first Schocken paperback edition. (Schocken, 1969).
2. Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (The MIT Press, 1992).
3. Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Vintage, 1995).
4. Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (Yale University Press, 1986).
5. Richard Cullen Rath, How Early America Sounded (Cornell University Press, 2005).
6. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space (University of California Press, 1987).
7. Mark M. Smith, Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling Tasting and Touching in History (University of California Press, 1987).
8. Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 (The MIT Press, 2004).
9. Steve Waksman, Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 2001).