Part 1: Avant-Gardes Revisited.- Chapter 1:On Listening to the Avant-Gardes: Introduction.- Chapter 2: "Listen to the Colour of your Dreams": Lettrism, Isou and the Hypergraphic Novel.- Chapter 3: Adorno, Dada and Music.- Chapter 4: Postmodernism, Avant-Garde and Neo-Dadaism: The Legacy of Boguslaw Schaeffer.- Chapter 5: Alberto's Greco Vivo-Dito, Lettrism and the Prophecies of the Proper Name.- Chapter 6: Gothic as the First Avant-Garde Art.- Part 2: Transatlantic Avant-Gardes and Countercultures.

- Chapter 7: Eugene Jolas and the Revolution of Language.- Chapter 8: Dark Night of the Universal: transition (1927-28) as Region of the Modern.- Chapter 9: Dada Countercultural Practices at the University of Iowa.- Chapter 10: Sunbird Records: From Subculture to Post-subculture.- Part 3: New Poetic Languages, Technology and Cinema.- Chapter 11: Variations on 4: The Verbivocovisual Sophistication of Dieter Roth's Non-Semantic Poetry.- Chapter 12: Aurality and Cyborg Poetry.- Chapter 13: On Anti-Viral Music.

- Chapter 14: Ciao Manhattan: The Rise and Fall of the Underground.- Chapter 15: Hidden Influences in Music Technology: An Approach to Coding Practice.- Part 4: Politics and Aesthetics of Invisibility.- Chapter 16: Invisible Environments: CAyC and Countercultural Cybernetics.- Chapter 17: Diário da República: Heavy-metal as a Territory of Ideological Emancipation .- Chapter 18: Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy.- Part 5: Music, Sound and Literature.- Chapter 19: Concrete Voices and Resonant Bodies.

- Chapter 20: Music, Literature and Cinema: When the Score Guides the Narrative.- Chapter 21: The Politics of a Voice: Demetrio Stratos .- Chapter 22: Sound as Model: Lucier versus Murail.- Chapter 23: Gravitas: An Audiovisual Cadavre Exquis for Times of Lexical Reduction.