Holger Schulze

Holger Schulze

Dr. Phil.

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20002020

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Holger Schulze (*1970) is full professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He serves as co-editor of the international journal for historical anthropology Paragrana and as founding editor of the book series Sound Studies. 

His research focuses on the cultural history of the senses, sound in popular culture and the anthropology of media. He is associated investigator at the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung: an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and founding member of the European Sound Studies Association. Between 2008-2016 he was director of the international research network Sound in Media Culture, and between 2000-2009 he was a co-founder and the first head of department of the new MA-programme in Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

He was invited visiting professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He served as a curator for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, produced radio features for Deutschlandradio Kultur and he writes for Merkur, Seismograf, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Positionen, Texte zur Kunst, taz - die tageszeitung, der freitag.

Portrait: „For Holger Schulze, immersive listening is his soundtrack to everyday life“ (2019)

Interview: "So ist für Nutzer klar: Die Position der Dienstmagd hat eine Frau" (DIE ZEIT 2019)

Programmatic monograph: The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury 2018)

Programmatic journal article: Corpus – Dispositive – Persona: Formants of an Anthropology of Sound (Swedish Journal of Music Research 2018)

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Areas of teaching and supervision: 

sound studies, popular music, sound design, sound art, music video, music culture, aural architecture, sensory studies, anthropology of sound.

 

CV

 

 

Employment

  • Since 2014 Professor in Musicology, Københavns Universitet
  • 2014 Visiting Professor in Sound Studies, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  • 2011-2013 Visiting Professor in Sound Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2010 Visiting Professor in Sound Studies, Musashino Art University Tokyo
  • 2006-2009 Visiting Professor in Sonic Anthropology & Ecology, Universität der Künste Berlin



Education

  • 2007 Habilitation in Cultural Theory and Cultural History, Universität der Künste Berlin
  • 1998 Dr. phil. in Comparative Literature, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 1995 Magister Artium in Comparative Literature, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

 

​Research

  • since 2019 Reembodying Technology: Skills and Sensibilites​ in Transformative Economies, University of New South Wales Sydney, Aston University Birmingham, University of Copenhagen
  • since 2017 Smart Speakers & Smart Headphones: Listening in the 21st Century, University of Copenhagen
  • 20​17/​18​ The Amen Break: 100 Jahre Beat​, ​​Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
  • ​2015/16 Krieg Singen: Singing The War​​, ​​Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
  • 2013–201​6​ Analog Storage Media, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung
  • 20​13/​14​ Inhuman Music - Evil Music - Stupid Music​, ​​Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
  • 2012​-16 Functional Sounds​, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin​ &​ Leuphana Universität Lüneburg​
  • 2010-16 Sound in Media Culture, Universität der Künste Berlin
  • 2008-15 Aural City: Signalstadt, Universität der Künste Berlin & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin​
  • 2007-14 Anthropology of Sound, Universität der Künste Berlin & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin​ 



Memberships

  • Founding Editor Book Series "​Sound Studies"
  • ​Editorial Board Journal "​Paragrana"
  • ​​Advisory Board Journal "Sound Studies"
  • ​Advisory Board Journal "Pop. Kultur und Kritik"​
  • ​Advisory Board Book Series "Popkulturwissenschaft"
  • Vice Chair European Sound Studies Association ESSA (since 2012)
  • ​Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Historische Anthropologie​, Freie Universität​ Berlin 
  • Berliner ​Gesellschaft für ​Neue ​Musik (​Steering Committee 2007/08)
  • ​International Association for the Study of Popular Music IASPM
  • ​Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft GfM
  • Interdisziplinäre Studiengesellschaft ISG (2009-2014)
  • Steering Committee graduate school "F​ür die K​ünste und die Wissenschaften", Universität der Künste Berlin (2009-2013)
  • ​Nordic ​Research Network for Sound Studies (2012-2014)​
  • Jury ​Member Berliner Schinkelpreis für Architektur (2012-2014)
  • ​​Jury Member International Symposium on Electronic Arts ISEA (2010)
  • Jury ​Member ​NEU/NOW Festival of the European League of Institutes of Art (2010)
  • ​Jury ​Member ​Digital Sparks – German award for students' works in media art (2008)
  • Jury ​Member German Audiobooks Award/Deutscher Hörbuchpreis (2007-2010)​



Monographs

1. Das aleatorische Spiel. Erkundung und Anwendung der nichtintentionalen Werkgenese im 20. Jahrhundert − Theorie der Werkgenese, Bd. 1, Wilhelm Fink Verlag München 2000. ​406​pp. [dissertation]

2. Heuristik. Theorie der intentionalen Werkgenese − Theorie der Werkgenese, Bd. 2, transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2005​. 205pp.​

3. Intimität und Medialität. Eine Anthropologie der Medien − Theorie der Werkgenese, Bd. 3, AVINUS-Verlag Berlin 2012​. 466pp. [habilitation]

4. Gespür. Eine Einzelstimmung, Textem Verlag Hamburg 2014 (Kleiner Stimmungs-Atlas in Einzelbänden, Bd. 9; hg. von Jan-Frederik Bandel & Nora Sdun).​ 109pp​.

5. American Progress. Nerd culture, comic acrobatics & commedia dell’arte by Tina Fey – Reihe Serienkulturen: herausgegeben von Marcus S. Kleiner, Springer VS Verlag Wiesbaden 2015​. 88pp.​

6. The Sonic Persona. An Anthropology of Sound, Bloomsbury Press New York 2018​. 255pp.​

7. Sound Works. A Cultural Theory of Sound Design, Bloomsbury Press New York 2019​. 272pp.

8. Sonic Fiction, Bloomsbury Press New York 2020. 192pp.​

9. Ubiquitäre Literatur. Eine Partikelpoetik, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2020. 180pp.​ (forthcoming)



Edited Volumes (selected)

​1. ​Klanganthropologie. Performativität − Imagination − Narration (​ed. with Christoph Wulf)​,​ Akademie Verlag Berlin 2007 (=​Paragrana 16 (2007), H. 2​)​. ​246​pp.

2. ​Sound Studies: Traditionen − Methoden − Desiderate. Eine Einführung, transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2008 (​=​Sound Studies Serie Volume 1). ​313​pp.​

3. ​Sound Studies (ed. with​ Jens Gerrit Papenburg & Maria Hanáçek)​, Verlag Positionen ​Mühlenbeck 2011 ​(=​Positionen − Texte zur aktuellen Musik 24 (2011), H. 86​)​​.​ ​64pp.
4. ​Gespür. Empfindung. Kleine Wahrnehmungen. Klanganthropologische Studien, transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2012 (​=​Sound Studies Serie Volume 3). ​267​pp.​

5. ​Situation und Klang, Stauffenburg Verlag Tübingen 2012​ (=​Zeitschrift für Semiotik 34 (2012), H.1-2​). ​232​pp.

​6. ​Towards New Sonic Epistemologies ​(=​Journal of Sonic Studies 3 (2013) Vol. 4 (​ed. ​with Marcel Cobussen & Vincent Meelberg)​, ​Leiden University Press Leiden 2013.

7. ​Functional Sounds​.​ Vol. 1 & 2​​ - Proceedings of the First International ESSA Conference 2013​ (=​Vol 1: Journal of Sonic Studies 4 (2014) Vol. 7​, ​ed. with Marcel Cobussen & Julia Krause)​; Vol.2: SoundEffects – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience Vol. 5 (2015), H.1 (​ed. ​with Carla J. Maier)​. ​Leiden University Press Leiden & The State and University Library Århus 2014/15

8. ​SABOTAGE! Pop als dysfunktionale Internationale (​ed. with Marcus S. Kleiner), transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2013​. 254pp.​

​9. ​Sound as Popular Culture. A Research Companion (ed. ​with Jens Gerrit Papenburg), MIT-Press Cambridge/Massachusetts 2016. 432pp.​

10. ​Anthropology of Sound​: Everybody's a Different Kind of Alien, Routledge Publishing London 2016 ​(=​The Senses and Society 11 (2016), no. 1​). 81pp.

11. ​​Krieg Singen. Essays, Lyrics, Interviews (ed. with Detlef Diederichsen)​, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2017. 132pp.

​12. Was erzählt Pop? Eine Ästhetik für das dritte Jahrtausend (ed. with Thomas Düllo & Florian Hadler), LIT-Verlag Berlin 2017​. 292pp.

​13. Out of Space: Sensory Practices and Placemaking. (​ed. with Christiane Brosius)​,​ Walter de Gruyter Verlag Berlin 2019 (=​Paragrana 28 (2019), H. 1​)​. ​201pp.

14. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. Bloomsbury Press New York 2020. 584pp. (ed. with Sanne Krogh Groth)

15. ​The Bloomsbury Handbook​ of the Anthropology of Sound. Bloomsbury Press New York 2020. 576pp. (forthcoming)

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Cultural history of the senses
  • Historical anthropology of media
  • Sound in popular culture

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