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Taylor and Francis Routledge Companion To Sound Studies 1St Edition 2019 by Michael Bull
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 ListeningSection 1 Introduction: Sonic Epistemologies and DebatesHolger Schulze: Sound As Theory 1863 - 2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to Salome VoeglinMark Grimshaw: What is Sound Studies?David Howes: Embodiment and the SensesNina Sun Eidsheim: Multisensory Investigation of Sound, Body and Voice.Neil Verma: The Return to Sound AestheticsChristabel Stirling: Sound, Affect, PoliticsSection 2Introduction: Sonic Conflicts, Concepts and CultureRichard Rath: Silence and NoiseKarin Bijsterveld: Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement MovementsDavid Goodman: Propaganda and SoundAlex Corey: Sounding Out Racial DifferenceMarie Thompson: Gendered SoundAmanda Cachia: Mapping Hearing Impairment: Sound/Tracks in the Corner Space Jonathan Pieslak: Sound and terrorism: Exploring the World of the Islamic StateSection 3Introduction: Sonic Spaces and PlacesJohn M. Picker: The Turning of a Word: Soundscape to SoundscapesTim Edensor: The Sonic Rhythms of PlaceBennett Hogg: Geographies of SilenceMeri Kyto: Public and Private Space: Sound TransformationsYiu-Fai Chow: Diaspora as Method. Music as HopeSection 4 Introduction: Sonic Skills: Finding, Recording and Researching.Salome Voeglin: Technologies of Sound ArtCarolyn Birdsall: Found in Translation: Recording, Storing and Writing of soundsShannon Mattern: Sonic ArchaeologiesBlake Durham: Curating Online SoundsTom Rice: Ethnographies of SoundFrauke Berendt: SoundwalkingPaul 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: EchoThor Magnusson: Sound and Music in Networked MediaLouis Neibur: Ordinary and Avant-Garde Sound in British Radio's Early Years.Jacob Smith: Remastering the Recording AngelAlex Russo: Radio SoundTom Artiss: Structures of Sonic feeling.Cara Wallis: Gender and the Telephonic Voice.Section 6 Introduction: Sound ConnectionsJames Mansell: Ways of Hearing: Sound, Culture and HistoryJustin St Clair: Literature and SoundMartyn Hudson: The Sociology of SoundIan Reyes: Popular Music as Sound and Listening Tim Wall: Radio SoundBen Powis and Thomas F. Carter: Sporting sounds