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

1. Holger Schulze: Sound As Theory 1863 - 2014: From Hermann von Helmholtz to Salome Voeglin





2. Mark Grimshaw: What is Sound Studies?





3. David Howes: Embodiment and the Senses





4. Nina Sun Eidsheim: Multisensory Investigation of Sound, Body and Voice.





5. Neil Verma: The Return to Sound Aesthetics





6. Christabel Stirling: Sound, Affect, Politics






Section 2Introduction: Sonic Conflicts, Concepts and Culture






7. Richard Rath: Silence and Noise





8. Karin Bijsterveld: Sound Waves of Protest: Noise Abatement Movements





9. David Goodman: Propaganda and Sound





10. Alex Corey: Sounding Out Racial Difference





11. Marie Thompson: Gendered Sound





12. Amanda Cachia: Mapping Hearing Impairment: Sound/Tracks in the Corner Space





13. Jonathan Pieslak: Sound and terrorism: Exploring the World of the Islamic State








Section 3Introduction: Sonic Spaces and Places




14. John M. Picker: The Turning of a Word: Soundscape to Soundscapes





15. Tim Edensor: The Sonic Rhythms of Place





16. Bennett Hogg: Geographies of Silence





17. Meri Kyto: Public and Private Space: Sound Transformations





18. Yiu-Fai Chow: Diaspora as Method. Music as Hope






Section 4 Introduction: Sonic Skills: Finding, Recording and Researching.




19. Salome Voeglin: Technologies of Sound Art





20. Carolyn Birdsall: Found in Translation: Recording, Storing and Writing of sounds





21. Shannon Mattern: Sonic Archaeologies





22. Blake Durham: Curating Online Sounds





23. Tom Rice: Ethnographies of Sound





24. Frauke Berendt: Soundwalking





25. Paul Nataraj: Surface Tension: Sheena and Bowie's 'Station to Station' as Palimpsest.








Section 5 Introduction: Technology, Culture and Sonic Experience.






26. Julian Henriques and Hillegonda C Rietveld: Echo





27. Thor Magnusson: Sound and Music in Networked Media





28. Louis Neibur: Ordinary and Avant-Garde Sound in British Radio's Early Years.





29. Jacob Smith: Remastering the Recording Angel





30. Alex Russo: Radio Sound





31. Tom Artiss: Structures of Sonic feeling.





32. Cara Wallis: Gender and the Telephonic Voice.






Section 6 Introduction: Sound Connections




33. James Mansell: Ways of Hearing: Sound, Culture and History