The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

by Holger Schulze (Editor)

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 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 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.

Genres: Anthropology

576 pages, Hardcover

Published December 24, 2020

About the author

Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, where he is also Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. Schulze is a cofounder of the research network Sound in Media Culture.