The Sonic Persona

An Anthropology of Sound

Bibliographic Data

ID5820184
AuthorsHolger Schulze (0000-0002-9769-4007, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Sonic Persona (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781501306839
OpenAlexW4251325770
Open LibraryOL26959739M
ISBN9781501306839
LanguageEN
Citations received19

In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences. From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts - and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening. This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses

Acoustics · Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Flute · Humanities · Natural (archaeology · Persona · Schulze method · Sociology · Sound (geography · Diverse Musicological Studies · Communication in anthropology · Senses and sensation · Social aspects · Sound · Communication · History · Philosophy

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