This is our running list of recommended works and reader-submitted annotations relevant to sound studies.
books
Adorno, Theodor. Essays on Music. Ed. Richard Leppert. Trans. Susan H. Gillespie. Berkely: U of California P, 2002.
Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
Bean, Annemarie, James Vernon Hatch, and Brooks McNamara, eds. Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Hanover: UP of New England, 1996.
Bijsterveld, Karin. Mechanical Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
Chew Sanchez, Martha I. Corridos in Migrant Memory. Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 2006.
Chion, Michel. The Voice in Cinema. 1982. Trans. Claudia Gorbman. New York: Columbia UP, 1999.
Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Erlmann, Veit, ed. Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity. New York: Berg, 2005.
Fuller, Sophie and Nicky Losseff, eds. The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Ihde, Don. Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound. 2nd ed. Albany: SUNY P, 2007.
Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film Typewriter. 1986. Trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Waultz. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Kreilkamp, Ivan. Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005.
Kun, Josh. Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005.
Leppert, Richard. The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 1982. New York: Routlege, 2001.
Paredes, Américo. With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: UT Press, 1958.
Peters, John Durham. Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
Picker, John. Victorian Soundscapes. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Rath, Richard Cullen. How Early America Sounded. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.
Schafer, Murray R. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester: Destiny Books, 1994.
Schmidt, Eric Leigh. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
Schweighauser, Philipp. The Noises of American Literature, 1890 - 1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2006.
Smith, Mark M. Listening to Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001.
Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound. Durham: Duke UP, 2003.
Thompson, Emily. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
select essays and chapters
Barthes, Roland. “The Grain of the Voice.” The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation. 1982. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1985.
Clayton, Jay. “The Voice in the Machine.” Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. New York: Routlege, 1997. 209-232.
Connor, Steven. “The Strains of the Voice.” Phonorama: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Stimme als Medium. Brigitte Felderer, ed. German Trans. Holger Wölfle. Berlin: Matthes and Seitz, 2004. 158-72.
Cuddy-Kean, Melba. “Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative through Auditory Perception.” A Companion to Narrative Theory. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz, eds. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. 382-398.
Jarrett, Michael. “Train Tracks: How the Railroad Rerouted Our Ears.” Strategies 14.1 (2001): 27-45.
Jones, Jennifer J. “Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series: “Romanticism and Opera.” May 2005. Online
Kaplan, Carla. “The Erotics of Talk: ‘That Oldest Human Longing’ in Their Eyes Were Watching God." American Literature 67 (1995): 115-142.
Mayer, David. “Nineteenth Century Theatre Music.” Theatre Notebook. 30.3 (1976): 115-122.
Peters, John Durham. “Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History.” Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture. Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, eds. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. 177-198.
Solie, Ruth A. “Fictions of the Opera Box.” Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004.
Tomlinson, Gary. “Introduction: Raised Voices” and “Fear of Singing.” The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 1-8 and 168-201.
Traux, Barry. “Part I: Sound, Listening, and Soundscape.” Acoustic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1984. 3-118.
Wolfson, Susan J. “Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series: “‘Soundings of Things Done’: The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era.” April 2008. Online.
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books
Adorno, Theodor. Essays on Music. Ed. Richard Leppert. Trans. Susan H. Gillespie. Berkely: U of California P, 2002.
Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
Bean, Annemarie, James Vernon Hatch, and Brooks McNamara, eds. Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy. Hanover: UP of New England, 1996.
Bijsterveld, Karin. Mechanical Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
Chew Sanchez, Martha I. Corridos in Migrant Memory. Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 2006.
Chion, Michel. The Voice in Cinema. 1982. Trans. Claudia Gorbman. New York: Columbia UP, 1999.
Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Erlmann, Veit, ed. Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity. New York: Berg, 2005.
Fuller, Sophie and Nicky Losseff, eds. The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Ihde, Don. Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound. 2nd ed. Albany: SUNY P, 2007.
Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film Typewriter. 1986. Trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Waultz. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
Kreilkamp, Ivan. Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005.
Kun, Josh. Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005.
Leppert, Richard. The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 1982. New York: Routlege, 2001.
Paredes, Américo. With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: UT Press, 1958.
Peters, John Durham. Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
Picker, John. Victorian Soundscapes. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Rath, Richard Cullen. How Early America Sounded. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.
Schafer, Murray R. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester: Destiny Books, 1994.
Schmidt, Eric Leigh. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
Schweighauser, Philipp. The Noises of American Literature, 1890 - 1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2006.
Smith, Mark M. Listening to Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001.
Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound. Durham: Duke UP, 2003.
Thompson, Emily. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
select essays and chapters
Barthes, Roland. “The Grain of the Voice.” The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation. 1982. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1985.
Clayton, Jay. “The Voice in the Machine.” Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production. New York: Routlege, 1997. 209-232.
Connor, Steven. “The Strains of the Voice.” Phonorama: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Stimme als Medium. Brigitte Felderer, ed. German Trans. Holger Wölfle. Berlin: Matthes and Seitz, 2004. 158-72.
Cuddy-Kean, Melba. “Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative through Auditory Perception.” A Companion to Narrative Theory. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz, eds. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. 382-398.
Jarrett, Michael. “Train Tracks: How the Railroad Rerouted Our Ears.” Strategies 14.1 (2001): 27-45.
Jones, Jennifer J. “Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series: “Romanticism and Opera.” May 2005. Online
Kaplan, Carla. “The Erotics of Talk: ‘That Oldest Human Longing’ in Their Eyes Were Watching God." American Literature 67 (1995): 115-142.
Mayer, David. “Nineteenth Century Theatre Music.” Theatre Notebook. 30.3 (1976): 115-122.
Peters, John Durham. “Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History.” Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture. Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, eds. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. 177-198.
Solie, Ruth A. “Fictions of the Opera Box.” Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004.
Tomlinson, Gary. “Introduction: Raised Voices” and “Fear of Singing.” The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 1-8 and 168-201.
Traux, Barry. “Part I: Sound, Listening, and Soundscape.” Acoustic Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1984. 3-118.
Wolfson, Susan J. “Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series: “‘Soundings of Things Done’: The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era.” April 2008. Online.
