The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology. Cover Contents Contributors Introduction: What Is an Anthropology of Sound? Holger Schulze Part I Living with Sonic Artifacts Pulse Michael Bull 1 The Headphone Naomi Smith and Anne-Marie Snider 2 The File Jens Gerrit Papenburg 3 The Instrument Rolf Großmann 4 The Software Katrine Wallevik Coda Sebastian Schwesinger Part II Sounding Flesh Pulse Salomé Voegelin 5 The Voice Ulrike Sowodniok 6 The Food Melissa Van Drie 7 The Intimate Holger Schulze 8 The Dance Inger Damsholt Coda Astrid Ellehøj Maaløe Part III The Habitat in Sound Pulse Jean-Paul Thibaud 9 The Plaza Sam Auinger and Dietmar Offenhuber 10 The Home Jacqueline Waldock 11 The Street Juhana Venäläinen, Sonja Pöllänen and Rajko Muršicˇ 12 The Workplace Andi Schoon Coda Marcel Cobussen Part IV Sonic Desires Pulse Marie Thompson 13 The Admiration Marcus S. Kleiner 14 The Entertainment Macon Holt 15 The Consonance Annemette Kirkegaard 16 The Quietude Tore Tvarnø Lind Coda Jordan Lacey Part V The Listening Machines Pulse Jens Gerrit Papenburg 17 The Recording Toby Seay 18 The Amplification Carla J. Maier 19 The Studio Matthew Barnard 20 The Reproduction Anders Bach Coda Jessica Thompson Part VI Sensologies Pulse Holger Schulze 21 The Model Gabriele de Seta 22 The Everyday Jacob Kreutzfeldt 23 The Unheard Tobias Ewé 24 The Ear Marc Couroux Coda Sam Auinger References Acknowledgments Index