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Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design by Professor Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future? Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, Why This Sound?, presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of Sonic Labor. Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary Living with Sounds. The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how Sound Works today. This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies

Sound Works Reviews

By wondering how to do things with sounds, this book opens a thorough and complex design theory of functional sounds. But rather than remaining confined to a strict design theory, this groundbreaking work summons some of the most recent and promising contributions of the social sciences, whether it be mediology or anthropology, semiotics or economics, critical or political theory, cultural or postcolonial studies. Without a doubt, this book is going to become an indispensable reference for those interested in everyday sounds. * Jean-Paul Thibaud, Research Director at CNRS, France, and author of En quete d'ambiances : eprouver la ville en passant (2015) *
Sound Works is a novel and welcome contribution to the theoretical discussion on sound design, as the author manages to combine an unusually wide variety of perspectives and consistently connects and situates these diverse perspectives in relation to the conditions of everyday living in present hegemonic practices of consumer society. What especially stands out thus is the consistent focus on everyday living situations for both those who produce and those who encounter these sounds in all walks of life. * Ola Stockfelt, Professor of Musicology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden *

About Professor Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the editor of Sound Studies (2008) and Sound as Popular Culture (2016) and author of The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Part 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design 1. Working 2. Consuming 3. Suffering 4. Joy Part 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and Cases With illustrations by Julia Krause 5. Location and Apparatus 6. Skills and Habits 7. Conflicts and Heuristics 8. Portfolio and Presentations Part 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic Signs Written in collaboration with Carla J. Maier 9. Signifying Sounds 10. Situated Signalling 11. Transmitting Sounds 12. Transcultural Aurality Part 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design 13. The Silencing Dispositive 14. The Economy of Sound 15. The Panacoustic Society 16. The Sonic Capital References Index

Additional information

NLS9781501373732
9781501373732
1501373730
Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design by Professor Holger Schulze (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2020-10-29
272
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