Routledge Companion to Sound Studies

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.

• Introduction: Sound Studies and the Art of ListeningSection 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 Bowie’s ‘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 Radio’s 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 <