sound studies
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Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience Marie Thompson & Ian Biddle Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in sound studies and affect studies. The first section sets out key methodological and theoretical concerns,…
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Hearing History: A Reader Mark Smith Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the field’s most important writings, this volume will deepen…
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The Sound Studies Reader Jonathan Sterne The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches…
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Keywords in Sound David Novak & Matt Sakakeeny In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each…
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The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford Handbooks) Trevor Pinch & Karin Bijsterveld Written by the world’s leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, *The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies *offers new and fully engaging perspectives…
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Tuning of the World R. Murray Schafer Entertaining recreations of soundscapes of past times and places precede a survey of methods for analyzing present-day soundscapes, distinguishing types of sound, and developing an understanding of the effects of sounds on us…