Holger Schulze

"There’s sonic serendipity in every single listening situation."
Denmark (residence), Germany (citizenship) °1970
research interests: sound studies, sensory ethnography, anthropology, popular music, Media Arts, memes, Sound Design, sonic materialism, sounding art, soundscape, sound art, soundwalk, aural phenomenology, Aural Skills
orcid: 0000-0002-9769-4007
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Holger Schulze is full professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab.

 

His sonic anthropology explores how sounds and listening in the 21st century stabiilize, disrupt and permeate everyday life. Artistic practices and mundane commodities are of equal concern to his sonic critique. Currently he writes a book on Meme Music, works on The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies in 3 volumes (as one of three editor-in-chiefs together with Jennifer Stoever and Michael Bull) and on The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound in Museums (together with Alcina Cortez, Gabriele Rossi Rognoni and Eric de Visscher).

 

His publications include: The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound (2021, ed.), Sonic Fiction (2020), The Sonic Persona (2018), Sound as Popular Culture (2016, co-ed.)

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  • ADVENTURES IN SONIC FICTION: A HEURISTIC FOR SOUND STUDIES (2018) author(s): Holger Schulze published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    This article presents Kodwo Eshun's concept of sonic fiction as an advanced and adequate methodological approach to sound studies. The references of More Brilliant Than The Sun (Eshun 1998) to afrofuturism and their methodological elaboration in Steve Goodman's Sonic Warfare (Goodman 2010) are discussed – as well as the strong epistemological connections to Michel Serres' reflections in his anthropology of the senses. Finally, this article explores the historical ramifications of the concept of sonic fictions in Alexander Baumgarten's concept of an aesthetic heuristic and ends with an enumeration of ten criteria for the methodological application of sonic fiction.
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