Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced on the shop floor, in the laboratory, the clinic, the design studio, the home, and clubs, across a broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts.
Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced on the shop floor, in the laboratory, the clinic, the design studio, the home, and clubs, across a broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts.
Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, and author or co-author of several books including Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (2002, with Frank Trocco) and The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology (1993, 1998, with Harry Collins). Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008), and co-editor of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009, with José van Dijck).
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* Contributors * List of Figures * Introduction: New Keys to the World of Sound - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld * SECTION I: REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOOR and TEST SITES * 1. The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization - Mark M. Smith * 2. Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s - Hans-Joachim Braun * 3. "Sobbing, whining, rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice - Stefan Krebs * 4. Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry - Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld * SECTION II: STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD * 5. Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology - Joeri Bruyninckx * 6. Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science - Stefan Helmreich * 7. A Grey Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920 - Julia Kursell * SECTION III. STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB * 8. From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome, and Siren - Myles W. Jackson * 9. Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian - Cyrus Mody * 10. The Search for the 'Killer Application': Drawing the Boundaries Around the Sonification of Scientific Data - Alexandra Supper * SECTION IV: SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC * 11. Inner and Outer Sancta: Ear Plugs and Hospitals - Hillel Schwartz * 12. Sounding Bodies: Medical Studies and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives - Tom Rice * 13. Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants - Mara Mills * SECTION V: EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO * 14. Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games - Mark Grimshaw * 15. The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts - William Whittington * 16. The Avant-garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s - Timothy Taylor * SECTION VI: CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND * 17. Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface - Andreas Fickers * 18. From Listening to Distribution: Non-official Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s - Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora * 19.The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music - Mark Katz * 20. Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com - Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades * SECTION VII: MOVING SOUND AND MUSIC: DIGITAL STORAGE * 21. Analog turns Digital: Hip-hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity - Ray Fouche * 22. iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia - Michael Bull * 23. The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification - Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama * Index
* Contributors * List of Figures * Introduction: New Keys to the World of Sound - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld * SECTION I: REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOOR and TEST SITES * 1. The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization - Mark M. Smith * 2. Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s - Hans-Joachim Braun * 3. "Sobbing, whining, rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice - Stefan Krebs * 4. Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry - Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld * SECTION II: STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD * 5. Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology - Joeri Bruyninckx * 6. Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science - Stefan Helmreich * 7. A Grey Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920 - Julia Kursell * SECTION III. STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB * 8. From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome, and Siren - Myles W. Jackson * 9. Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian - Cyrus Mody * 10. The Search for the 'Killer Application': Drawing the Boundaries Around the Sonification of Scientific Data - Alexandra Supper * SECTION IV: SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC * 11. Inner and Outer Sancta: Ear Plugs and Hospitals - Hillel Schwartz * 12. Sounding Bodies: Medical Studies and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives - Tom Rice * 13. Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants - Mara Mills * SECTION V: EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO * 14. Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games - Mark Grimshaw * 15. The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts - William Whittington * 16. The Avant-garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s - Timothy Taylor * SECTION VI: CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND * 17. Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface - Andreas Fickers * 18. From Listening to Distribution: Non-official Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s - Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora * 19.The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music - Mark Katz * 20. Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com - Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades * SECTION VII: MOVING SOUND AND MUSIC: DIGITAL STORAGE * 21. Analog turns Digital: Hip-hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity - Ray Fouche * 22. iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia - Michael Bull * 23. The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification - Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama * Index
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