The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies

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 (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.

Introduction: Sound Studies and the Art of Listening

Section 1 Introduction: Sonic Epistemologies and Debates






Holger Schulze: Sound As Theory 1863 – 2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to Salome Voeglin



Mark Grimshaw: What is Sound Studies?



David Howes: Embodiment and the Senses



Nina Sun Eidsheim: Multisensory Investigation of Sound, Body and Voice.



Neil Verma: The Return to Sound Aesthetics



Christabel Stirling: Sound, Affect, Politics
Section 2Introduction: Sonic Conflicts, Concepts and Culture




Richard Rath: Silence and Noise



Karin Bijsterveld: Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement Movements



David Goodman: Propaganda and Sound



Alex Corey: Sounding Out Racial Difference



Marie Thompson: Gendered Sound



Amanda Cachia: Mapping Hearing Impairment: Sound/Tracks in the Corner Space



Jonathan Pieslak: Sound and terrorism: Exploring the World of the Islamic State
Section 3Introduction: Sonic Spaces and Places




John M. Picker: The Turning of a Word: Soundscape to Soundscapes



Tim Edensor: The Sonic Rhythms of Place



Bennett Hogg: Geographies of Silence



Meri Kyto: Public and Private Space: Sound Transformations



Yiu-Fai Chow: Diaspora as Method. Music as Hope
Section 4 Introduction: Sonic Skills: Finding, Recording and Researching.




Salome Voeglin: Technologies of Sound Art



Carolyn Birdsall: Found in Translation: Recording, Storing and Writing of sounds



Shannon Mattern: Sonic Archaeologies



Blake Durham: Curating Online Sounds



Tom Rice: Ethnographies of Sound



Frauke Berendt: Soundwalking



Paul 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: Echo



Thor Magnusson: Sound and Music in Networked Media



Louis Neibur: Ordinary and Avant-Garde Sound in British Radio’s Early Years.



Jacob Smith: Remastering the Recording Angel



Alex Russo: Radio Sound



Tom Artiss: Structures of Sonic feeling.



Cara Wallis: Gender and the Telephonic Voice.
Section 6 Introduction: Sound Connections




James Mansell: Ways of Hearing: Sound, Culture and History



Justin St Clair: Literature and Sound



Martyn Hudson: The Sociology of Sound



Ian Reyes: Popular Music as Sound and Listening



Tim Wall: Radio Sound



Ben Powis and Thomas F. Carter: Sporting sounds