Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the editor of Sound Studies (2008) and Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and author of The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design1. Working2. Consuming3. Suffering4. JoyPart 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and CasesWith illustrations by Julia Krause5. Location and Apparatus6. Skills and Habits7. Conflicts and Heuristics8. Portfolio and PresentationsPart 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic SignsWritten in collaboration with Carla J. Maier9. Signifying Sounds10. Situated Signalling11. Transmitting Sounds12. Transcultural AuralityPart 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design13. The Silencing Dispositive14. The Economy of Sound15. The Panacoustic Society16. The Sonic CapitalReferencesIndex

By wondering how to do things with sounds, this book opens a thorough and complex design theory of functional sounds. But rather than remaining confined to a strict design theory, this groundbreaking work summons some of the most recent and promising contributions of the social sciences, whether it be mediology or anthropology, semiotics or economics, critical or political theory, cultural or postcolonial studies. Without a doubt, this book is going to become an indispensable reference for those interested in everyday sounds.

Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the editor of Sound Studies (2008) and Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and author of The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design1. Working2. Consuming3. Suffering4. JoyPart 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and CasesWith illustrations by Julia Krause5. Location and Apparatus6. Skills and Habits7. Conflicts and Heuristics8. Portfolio and PresentationsPart 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic SignsWritten in collaboration with Carla J. Maier9. Signifying Sounds10. Situated Signalling11. Transmitting Sounds12. Transcultural AuralityPart 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design13. The Silencing Dispositive14. The Economy of Sound15. The Panacoustic Society16. The Sonic CapitalReferencesIndex

By wondering how to do things with sounds, this book opens a thorough and complex design theory of functional sounds. But rather than remaining confined to a strict design theory, this groundbreaking work summons some of the most recent and promising contributions of the social sciences, whether it be mediology or anthropology, semiotics or economics, critical or political theory, cultural or postcolonial studies. Without a doubt, this book is going to become an indispensable reference for those interested in everyday sounds.

Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the editor of Sound Studies (2008) and Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and author of The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design1. Working2. Consuming3. Suffering4. JoyPart 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and CasesWith illustrations by Julia Krause5. Location and Apparatus6. Skills and Habits7. Conflicts and Heuristics8. Portfolio and PresentationsPart 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic SignsWritten in collaboration with Carla J. Maier9. Signifying Sounds10. Situated Signalling11. Transmitting Sounds12. Transcultural AuralityPart 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design13. The Silencing Dispositive14. The Economy of Sound15. The Panacoustic Society16. The Sonic CapitalReferencesIndex

By wondering how to do things with sounds, this book opens a thorough and complex design theory of functional sounds. But rather than remaining confined to a strict design theory, this groundbreaking work summons some of the most recent and promising contributions of the social sciences, whether it be mediology or anthropology, semiotics or economics, critical or political theory, cultural or postcolonial studies. Without a doubt, this book is going to become an indispensable reference for those interested in everyday sounds.