Sounding the Field: Recent Works in Sound Studies

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Journal article
Creator (person)
Boon, Tim
Date published
September 2015
Abstract
For sound studies, the publication of a 593-page handbook, not to mention the establishment of at least one society – the European Sound Studies Association – might seem to signify the emergence of a new academic discipline. Certainly, the books under consideration here, alongside many others, testify to an intensification of concern with the aural dimensions of culture. Some of this work comes from HPS and STS, some from musicology and cultural studies. But all of it should concern members of our disciplines, as it represents a long-overdue foregrounding of the aural in how we think about the intersections of science, technology and culture.
Journal title
The British Journal for the History of Science
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN
0007-0874
eISSN
1474-001X
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