Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound

Christine Guillebaud is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientifi c Research (CNRS), and member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CREM-LESC), based at the University of Paris Nanterre, France.

• Introduction: Multiple Listenings Christine GuillebaudPart I: Listening into Others1. Noising the City Olivier Féraud2. Sounds of Hell and Sounds of Eden Anne Damon-Guillot3. An “Obscene” Calling Tripta ChandolaPart II: Sound Displays and Social Effects4. Standing out from the Crowd Christine Guillebaud5. Melodic Refrains in Japanese Train Stations Pierre ManeaPart III: Sound Identity and Locality6. Acoustic Communities Represented Heikki Uimonen7. Mics in the Ears Vincent Battesti8. Mapping out the Sounds of Urban Transformation Iñigo Sánchez9. Listening to the City Claire GuiuPart IV: Sound Arts and Anthropology10. Not Just Tones, Noises Too! Jean-Charles Depaule11. Tribute To a Footbridge Vincent RiouxAfterword: The Sonic Attunement of Social Life Jean-Paul Thibaud

"Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound is a nice and welcome addition to a steadily growing corps of literature on sounds in and of the city. As scholarly reflection and theoretical deepening are profoundly important for me (and, I think, for the entire field of sound studies as well), the contributions written by Chandola, Guillebaud, Battesti, and Thibaud stand out as they go beyond the mere noticing of specific sonic events."- Marcel Cobussen, Journal of Sonic Studies