Sound Studies Books

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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 190 ratings — published 2002
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 773 ratings — published 1977
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The Sound Studies Reader The Sound Studies Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 54 ratings — published 2012
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)
by (shelved 5 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 106 ratings — published 1982
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 107 ratings — published 2012
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Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World) Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 20 ratings — published
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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 2001
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Village Bells Village Bells (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 35 ratings — published 1994
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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 25 ratings — published 2014
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 77 ratings — published 2002
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 960 ratings — published 1977
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 209 ratings — published 1999
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Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 57 ratings — published 1976
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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 278 ratings — published 2009
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 157 ratings — published 2010
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Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2014
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The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (Postmillennial Pop, 17) The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (Postmillennial Pop, 17)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 49 ratings — published
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Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique (Refiguring American Music) Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique (Refiguring American Music)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2016
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 58 ratings — published
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Keywords in Sound Keywords in Sound (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 52 ratings — published 2015
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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 93 ratings — published 2015
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How Early America Sounded How Early America Sounded (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.61 — 36 ratings — published 2003
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Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 354 ratings — published 2013
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Hearing History: A Reader Hearing History: A Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2004
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1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.74 — 114 ratings — published 2009
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Listening Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 216 ratings — published 2002
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 49 ratings — published 2005
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Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technology, and Things to Come (Palgrave Studies in Sound) Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technology, and Things to Come (Palgrave Studies in Sound)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 391 ratings — published 2022
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 598 ratings — published 1993
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The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 43 ratings — published
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The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published
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City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History) City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.46 — 13 ratings — published 2014
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Victorian Soundscapes Victorian Soundscapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 2003
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Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2012
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The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 634 ratings — published 2012
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Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published
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Remapping Sound Studies Remapping Sound Studies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
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Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2013
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How Music Works How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,889 ratings — published 2014
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Microsound Microsound (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 163 ratings — published 2002
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Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published
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Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945 Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2012
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Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Studies in Sensory History) Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Studies in Sensory History)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2011
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (Zone Books) Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (Zone Books)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 24 ratings — published 2010
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In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 62 ratings — published 2009
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Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.50 — 28 ratings — published 2008
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Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice) Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice)
by (shelved 2 times as sound-studies)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2016
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