Noise is so often a'stench in the ear'–an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome
distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound …

The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that serves as a basic textbook
on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures …

The highest expression of the conflict of things, as a spontaneous eruption of possibilities, as
movement, as a simultaneous poem, as a symphony of cries, shots, commands, embodying …

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-
viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not …

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment
prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative …

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the
concept of" glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general …

In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think
about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records …

Sound studies have found in noise a subject of deep fascination that cuts across disciplinary
boundaries of history, anthropology, music, literature, media studies, philosophy, urban …

In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise,
atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise …

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence
produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and …