The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

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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. 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).

ContributorsWhat is an Anthropology of Sound? Holger SchulzePart I Living with Sonic Artifacts
Pulse Michael Bull1 The Headphone Naomi Smith & Anne-Marie Snider2 The File Jens Gerrit Papenburg3 The Instrument Rolf Großmann4 The Software Katrine WallevikCoda Sebastian SchwesingerPart II Sounding Flesh
Pulse Salomé Voegelin5 The Voice Ulrike Sowodniok6 The Food Melissa Van Drie7 The Intimate Holger Schulze8 The Dance Inger DamsholtCoda Astrid Ellehøj MaaløePart III The Habitat in Sound
Pulse Jean-Paul Thibaud9 The Plaza Sam Auinger & Dietmar Offenhuber10 The Home Jacqueline Waldock11 The Street Juhana Venäläinen, Sonja Pöllänen &Rajko Muršic?12 The Workplace Andi SchoonCoda Marcel CobussenPart IV Sonic Desires
Pulse Marie Thompson13 The Admiration Marcus S. Kleiner14 The Entertainment Macon Holt15 The Consonance Annemette Kirkegaard16 The Quietude Tore Tvarnø LindCoda Jordan LaceyPart V The Listening Machines
Pulse Jens Gerrit Papenburg17 The Recording Toby Seay18 The Amplification Carla J. Maier19 The Studio Matthew Barnard20 The Reproduction Anders BachCoda Jessica ThompsonPart VI Sensologies
Pulse Holger Schulze21 The Model Gabriele de Seta22 The Everyday Jacob Kreutzfeldt23 The Unheard Tobias Linnemann Ewé24 The Ear Marc CourouxCoda Sam AuingerReferences
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“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
definitely leave the reader with the impression that the anthropology of sound is BOOMING.” —David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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