<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

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology.
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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

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An authoritative collection of research covering ethnographic field research and cultural history that explores our experience with sound in our everyday lives.
The first comprehensive, edited overview of the quickly emerging field of the anthropology of sound
Bloomsbury Handbooks is a series of single-volume reference works which map the parameters of a discipline or sub-discipline and present the 'state-of-the-art' in terms of research. Each Handbook offers a systematic and structured range of specially commissioned essays reflecting on the history, methodologies, research methods, current debates and future of a particular field of research. Bloomsbury Handbooks provide researchers and graduate students with both cutting-edge perspectives on perennial questions and authoritative overviews of the history of research.
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ISBN
9781501335396
Publisert
2020-12-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
1211 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
576

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Biografisk notat

Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016), The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2017), and Sonic Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020).