The Big Books of Fall
Genres

Sound Studies


Sound Studies Books

The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)
The Sound Studies Reader
MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World)
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America
Village Bells
Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Political Possibility of Sound, The: Fragments of Listening
Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound
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Lists

Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.The Audible Past by Jonathan SterneNoise by Jacques AttaliThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise Uprising by Michael Denning
Music, Listening, and Modernity
73 books — 12 voters
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Audible Past by Jonathan SterneThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise, Water, Meat by Douglas KahnNoise by Jacques Attali
Noise, Music & Sound
144 books — 22 voters