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 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).

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