Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

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).

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 willdefinitely leave the reader with the impression that the anthropology of sound is BOOMING.

• ContributorsWhat is an Anthropology of Sound? Holger SchulzePart I Living with Sonic ArtifactsPulse 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 FleshPulse 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 SoundPulse 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 DesiresPulse 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 MachinesPulse Jens Gerrit Papenburg17 The Recording Toby Seay18 The Amplification Carla J. Maier19 The Studio Matthew Barnard20 The Reproduction Anders BachCoda Jessica ThompsonPart VI SensologiesPulse Holger Schulze21 The Model Gabriele de Seta22 The Everyday Jacob Kreutzfeldt23 The Unheard Tobias Linnemann Ewé24 The Ear Marc CourouxCoda Sam AuingerReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndex