Books
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Sound as Popular Culture: A Research Companion (The MIT Press) Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Holger Schulze Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound. The…
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The Sound of Nonsense (The Study of Sound) Richard Elliott In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the ‘nonsense’ of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before…
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Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean Alejandra M. Bronfman In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…
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Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art Paul Hegarty This is a book about video art, and about sound art. The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing,…
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Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing Julian Henriques The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems…