The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines within sound studies cover such diverse topics as politics, gender, media, race, literature and sport. Individual sections that consider the importance of sound in an increasingly mediated world; the role that sound media play in the construction of experience; and the ways in which sound has been theorized to produce a distinctive sensory contribution to knowledge.

This wide-ranging and vibrant collection provides a rich resource for scholars and students of media and culture.

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The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies provides both upper level students and researchers with a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field.

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Introduction: Sound Studies and the Art of Listening

Section 1 Introduction: Sonic Epistemologies and Debates



  1. Holger Schulze: Sound As Theory 1863 – 2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to Salome Voeglin




  2. Mark Grimshaw: What is Sound Studies?




  3. David Howes: Embodiment and the Senses




  4. Nina Sun Eidsheim: Multisensory Investigation of Sound, Body and Voice.




  5. Neil Verma: The Return to Sound Aesthetics




  6. Christabel Stirling: Sound, Affect, Politics




  7. Section 2Introduction: Sonic Conflicts, Concepts and Culture





  8. Richard Rath: Silence and Noise




  9. Karin Bijsterveld: Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement Movements




  10. David Goodman: Propaganda and Sound




  11. Alex Corey: Sounding Out Racial Difference




  12. Marie Thompson: Gendered Sound




  13. Amanda Cachia: Mapping Hearing Impairment: Sound/Tracks in the Corner Space




  14. Jonathan Pieslak: Sound and terrorism: Exploring the World of the Islamic State






  15. Section 3Introduction: Sonic Spaces and Places



  16. John M. Picker: The Turning of a Word: Soundscape to Soundscapes




  17. Tim Edensor: The Sonic Rhythms of Place




  18. Bennett Hogg: Geographies of Silence




  19. Meri Kyto: Public and Private Space: Sound Transformations




  20. Yiu-Fai Chow: Diaspora as Method. Music as Hope




  21. Section 4 Introduction: Sonic Skills: Finding, Recording and Researching.



  22. Salome Voeglin: Technologies of Sound Art




  23. Carolyn Birdsall: Found in Translation: Recording, Storing and Writing of sounds




  24. Shannon Mattern: Sonic Archaeologies




  25. Blake Durham: Curating Online Sounds




  26. Tom Rice: Ethnographies of Sound




  27. Frauke Berendt: Soundwalking




  28. Paul Nataraj: Surface Tension: Sheena and Bowie’s ‘Station to Station’ as Palimpsest.






  29. Section 5 Introduction: Technology, Culture and Sonic Experience.





  30. Julian Henriques and Hillegonda C Rietveld: Echo




  31. Thor Magnusson: Sound and Music in Networked Media




  32. Louis Neibur: Ordinary and Avant-Garde Sound in British Radio’s Early Years.




  33. Jacob Smith: Remastering the Recording Angel




  34. Alex Russo: Radio Sound




  35. Tom Artiss: Structures of Sonic feeling.




  36. Cara Wallis: Gender and the Telephonic Voice.




  37. Section 6 Introduction: Sound Connections



  38. James Mansell: Ways of Hearing: Sound, Culture and History




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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367659745
Publisert
2020-09-30
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
786 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
440

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Biografisk notat

Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex. His works include Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday life (2000) and Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience (2007) He has just completed a monograph on Sirens and is presently writing a monograph on Reinterpreting the Sounds of World War 1. He is the co-founding editor of the journals Senses and Society and Sound Studies (both with Routledge) and is editor of the book series The Study of Sound.