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