The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an im...

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Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts. Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a study which has historically been undertaken with optical instruments such as slides, graphs, and telescopes. This book questions that notion powerfully by illustrating how sounds have always been a part of human experience, shaping and transforming the world in which we live in ways that often go unnoticed. Sounds and music, the authors argue, are embedded in the fabric of everyday life, art, commerce, and politics in ways which impact our perception of the world. Through an extraordinarily diverse set of case studies, authors illustrate how sounds - from the sounds of industrialization, to the sounds of automobiles, to sounds in underwater music and hip-hop, to the sounds of nanotechnology - give rise to new forms listening practices. In addition, the book discusses the rise of new public problems such as noise pollution, hearing loss, and intellectual property and privacy issues that stem from the spread and appropriation of new sound- and music-related technologies, analog and digital, in many domains of life. Rich in vivid and detailed examples and compelling case studies, and featuring a companion website of listening samples, this remarkable volume boldly challenges readers to rethink the way they hear and understand the world.

CONTENTS
Contributors XI
About the companion website XIII
New Keys to the World of Sound 3
Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
SECTION I REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOORS AND TEST SITES
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CONTENTS
Contributors XI
About the companion website XIII
New Keys to the World of Sound 3
Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld
SECTION I REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOORS AND TEST SITES
1. The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American
Industrialization 39
Mark M. Smith
2. Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in
Germany since the 1920s 58
Hans-Joachim Braun
3. "Sobbing, Whining, Rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as
Social Practice 79
Stefan Krebs
4. Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the
European Car Industry 102
Eejje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld
SECTION II STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD
5· Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings
in Ornithology 127
Joeri Bruyninckx
6. Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the
Sounds of Science 151
Stefan Helmreich
7· A Gray Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments
and Fieldwork, 1900-1920 176
Julia Kursell
SECTION III STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB
8. From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments:
The Tuning Fork, the Metronome, and the Siren 201
Myles W. Jackson
9. Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian 224
Cyrus C. M. Mody
10. The Search for the "Killer Application": Drawing the
Boundaries around the Sanification of Scientific Data 249
Alexandra Supper
SECTION IV SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC
n. Inner and Outer Sancta: Earplugs and Hospitals 273
Hillel Schwartz
12. Sounding Bodies: Medical Students and the Acquisition
of Stethoscopic Perspectives 298
Tom Rice
13. Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in
Cochlear Implants 320
Mara Mills
SECTION V EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO
14. Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games 347
Mark Grimshaw
15. The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's
Animated Shorts 367
William Whittington
16. The Avant-Garde in the Family Room: American
Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music
in the 1960s and 1970s 387
Timothy D. Taylor
SECTION VI CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND
17· Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface 411
Andreas Pickers
18. From Listening to Distribution: Nonofficial Music
Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the
1960s to the 198os 440
Trever Hagen with Tia DeN ora
19. The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music 459
Mark Katz
20. Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical
Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology
at ACIDplanet.com 480
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 505
Rayvon Fouche
22. iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia 526
Michael Bull
23. The Recording That Never Wanted to Be Heard and Other
Stories of Sanification 544
Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama
Index 561
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