Noise pollution has rapidly emerged as a key public policy issue relevant to citizens’ everyday life and specifically revealed by the development of local-level participatory bodies such as neighborhood councils. Residents suffering from those nuisances interpret them either as marks of uncivil behavior or as a weakening of the sense of community. This paper, focusing on the city of Angers and building on a participant observation carried out by the author holding the unusual position of town councilor, chronicles the mobilization of several stakeholders (associations, tenants, elected officials, students) and its predictable failure. In fact, rather than being the instantiation of a “sociology of incivility,” noise pollution designates a set of changes undergone by demographic, urban, and social structures.