i THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SOUND STUDIES
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 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.
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex. His works include Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (2000) and Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience (Routledge 2007). He has just completed a monograph on Sirens and is presently writing a monograph on Reinterpreting the Sounds of World War 1. He is the co-founding editor of the journals Senses and Society and Sound Studies (both with Routledge) and is editor of the book series The Study of Sound. ii
iii THE ROUTLEDGE
COMPANION TO SOUND
STUDIES
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v CONTENTS
Holger Schulze
Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
David Howes
Nina Sun Eidsheim
Neil Verma
Christabel Stirling
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Richard Cullen Rath
Karin Bijsterveld
David Goodman
Alex W. Corey
Marie Thompson
Amanda Cachia
Jonathan Pieslak
John M. Picker
Tim Edensor
Bennett Hogg
Meri Kyt
Yiu Fai Chow
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Salom Voegelin
Carolyn Birdsall
Shannon Mattern
Blake Durham
Tom Rice
Frauke Behrendt
Paul Nataraj
Julian Henriques and Hillegonda Rietveld
Thor Magnusson
Louis Niebur
Jacob Smith
Alexander Russo
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Tom Artiss
Cara Wallis
James G. Mansell
Justin St. Clair
Martyn Hudson
Ian Reyes
Tim Wall
Ben Powis and Thomas F. Carter
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Tom Artiss teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate in 2014. His dissertation, A Social Life of Songs: Inuitization and Music in Nain, Labrador, explores the ways in which Western music inflects and reflects modern Inuit identities. Current research extends to radio and affect in Canadian indigenous communities.
Frauke Behrendt is Principal Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Brighton and Deputy Head of School for Research and Enterprise in the School of Media. She is also the founding director of the Centre for Digital Media Cultures. Behrendt led the EPSRC-funded research project Smart e-Bikes Understanding How Commuters and Communities Engage With Electrically-Assisted Cycling, the Intelligent Transport Solutions for Social Inclusion project, and the research on the NetPark project.
Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT, 2008), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012, with Trevor Pinch), co-author of Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel (Oxford UP 2014, with Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs & Gijs Mom), and editor of a special issue on Auditory History in The Public Historian (2015). Her book Sonic Skills is forthcoming (Palgrave, 2018).
Carolyn Birdsall is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 19331945 (Amsterdam University Press, 2012) and Sonic Meditations: Body, Sound, Technology (edited with Anthony Enns, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Birdsalls current research examines the early history of radio sound archiving in and beyond Europe.
Amanda Cachia has curated over forty exhibitions, many of which highlight disability politics in contemporary art. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Moreno Valley College in Riverside, California, and director of the new Moreno Valley College Art Gallery, scheduled to open in autumn 2018. She completed her PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego, in spring 2017.
xi Thomas F. Carter is an anthropologist who has conducted international research on a range of issues within sport. He currently leads the social science postgraduate provision of Masters courses in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the US, Ecuador, and Wales with extensive fieldwork being conducted in Northern Ireland and Cuba. He is the author of two books: The Quality of Home Runs (Duke University Press, 2008) and In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration (Pluto Press, 2011). The Quality of Home Runs won the North American Society for the Sociology of Sports Outstanding Book Award for 2009.
Yiu Fai Chow is Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications cover gender politics and creative practices, including
