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.
Introduction: Sound Studies and the Art of Listening
Section 1 Introduction: Sonic Epistemologies and Debates
Holger Schulze: Sound As Theory 1863 2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to
Salome Voeglin
Mark Grimshaw: What is Sound Studies?
David Howes: Embodiment and the Senses
Nina Sun Eidsheim: Multisensory Investigation of Sound, Body and Voice.
Neil Verma: The Return to Sound Aesthetics
Christabel Stirling: Sound, Affect, Politics
Section 2Introduction: Sonic Conflicts, Concepts and Culture
Richard Rath: Silence and Noise
Karin Bijsterveld: Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement Movements
David Goodman: Propaganda and Sound
Alex Corey: Sounding Out Racial Difference
Marie Thompson: Gendered Sound
Amanda Cachia: Mapping Hearing Impairment: Sound/Tracks in the Corner Space
Jonathan Pieslak: Sound and terrorism: Exploring the World of the Islamic
State
Section 3Introduction: Sonic Spaces and Places
John M. Picker: The Turning of a Word: Soundscape to Soundscapes
Tim Edensor: The Sonic Rhythms of Place
Bennett Hogg: Geographies of Silence
Meri Kyto: Public and Private Space: Sound Transformations
Yiu-Fai Chow: Diaspora as Method. Music as Hope
Section 4 Introduction: Sonic Skills: Finding, Recording and Researching.
Salome Voeglin: Technologies of Sound Art
Carolyn Birdsall: Found in Translation: Recording, Storing and Writing of
sounds
Shannon Mattern: Sonic Archaeologies
Blake Durham: Curating Online Sounds
Tom Rice: Ethnographies of Sound
Frauke Berendt: Soundwalking
Paul Nataraj: Surface Tension: Sheena and Bowies Station to Station as
Palimpsest.
Section 5 Introduction: Technology, Culture and Sonic Experience.
Julian Henriques and Hillegonda C Rietveld: Echo
Thor Magnusson: Sound and Music in Networked Media
Louis Neibur: Ordinary and Avant-Garde Sound in British Radios Early Years.
Jacob Smith: Remastering the Recording Angel
Alex Russo: Radio Sound
Tom Artiss: Structures of Sonic feeling.
Cara Wallis: Gender and the Telephonic Voice.
Section 6 Introduction: Sound Connections
James Mansell: Ways of Hearing: Sound, Culture and History
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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.
