<p>Holger Schulze is the foremost conductor of sonic anthropology. For this handbook, Maestro Schulze has assembled a chorus of many of the leading voices in Sound Studies and a range of emergent voices—junior scholars who are just breaking in on (and up) the scene, or score. There are chapters that will tantalize the listener, like Melissa Van Drie’s chapter ‘The Food,’ and other chapters that will jar you, rock you, soothe you, or leave you wondering what it was you just heard, like Tobias Ewé’s ‘The Unheard.’ The aim of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound is to decolonialize, idiosyncratize, and sensualize our hearing as ‘humanoid aliens’ in a more-than-human world. With its sections on ‘Living with Sonic Artifacts,’ ‘Sounding Flesh,’ ‘Sonic Desires,’ and ‘Sensologies,’ this volume is as polyphonic as it is interdisciplinary, and will<br />definitely leave the reader with the impression that the anthropology of sound is BOOMING.</p>
David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Contributors
What is an Anthropology of Sound? Holger Schulze
Part I Living with Sonic Artifacts
Pulse Michael Bull
1 The Headphone Naomi Smith & Anne-Marie Snider
2 The File Jens Gerrit Papenburg
3 The Instrument Rolf Großmann
4 The Software Katrine Wallevik
Coda Sebastian Schwesinger
Part II Sounding Flesh
Pulse Salomé Voegelin
5 The Voice Ulrike Sowodniok
6 The Food Melissa Van Drie
7 The Intimate Holger Schulze
8 The Dance Inger Damsholt
Coda Astrid Ellehøj Maaløe
Part III The Habitat in Sound
Pulse Jean-Paul Thibaud
9 The Plaza Sam Auinger & Dietmar Offenhuber
10 The Home Jacqueline Waldock
11 The Street Juhana Venäläinen, Sonja Pöllänen &
Rajko Muršic?
12 The Workplace Andi Schoon
Coda Marcel Cobussen
Part IV Sonic Desires
Pulse Marie Thompson
13 The Admiration Marcus S. Kleiner
14 The Entertainment Macon Holt
15 The Consonance Annemette Kirkegaard
16 The Quietude Tore Tvarnø Lind
Coda Jordan Lacey
Part V The Listening Machines
Pulse Jens Gerrit Papenburg
17 The Recording Toby Seay
18 The Amplification Carla J. Maier
19 The Studio Matthew Barnard
20 The Reproduction Anders Bach
Coda Jessica Thompson
Part VI Sensologies
Pulse Holger Schulze
21 The Model Gabriele de Seta
22 The Everyday Jacob Kreutzfeldt
23 The Unheard Tobias Linnemann Ewé
24 The Ear Marc Couroux
Coda Sam Auinger
References
Acknowledgments
Index