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Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 København S
Karen Blixens Vej 1
2300 København S
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Monographs
1. Das aleatorische Spiel. Erkundung und Anwendung der nichtintentionalen Werkgenese im 20. Jahrhundert − Theorie der Werkgenese, Bd. 1, Wilhelm Fink Verlag München 2000. 406pp. [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 Academic New York 2018. 255pp.
7. Sound Works. A Cultural Theory of Sound Design, Bloomsbury Academic New York 2019. 272pp.
8. Sonic Fiction, Bloomsbury Academic New York 2020. 192pp.
9. Ubiquitäre Literatur. Eine Partikelpoetik, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2020. 191pp.
10. Meme Music, Bloomsbury Academic New York 2026. approx. 190pp. (under contract)
Edited Volumes (selected)
1. Klanganthropologie. Performativität − Imagination − Narration (ed. with Christoph Wulf), Akademie Verlag Berlin 2007 (=Paragrana 16 (2007), H. 2). 246pp.
2. Sound Studies: Traditionen − Methoden − Desiderate. Eine Einführung, transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2008 (=Sound Studies Serie Volume 1). 313pp.
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). 267pp.
5. Situation und Klang, Stauffenburg Verlag Tübingen 2012 (=Zeitschrift für Semiotik 34 (2012), H.1-2). 232pp.
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. (ed. with Sanne Krogh Groth) Bloomsbury Academic New York 2020. 571pp.
15. The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound. Bloomsbury Academic New York 2021. 580pp.
16. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound in Museums (ed. with Alcina Cortez, Eric de Visscher & Gabriele Rossi Rognoni). Bloomsbury Academic New York 2026. approx 550pp. (under contract).
17. Arts, Practices, Theories (ed. with Kristin Moriah) - Volume 2 of The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies (ed. with Jennifer Stoever and Michael Bull). Bloomsbury Academic London 2028. approx. 700pp (under contract).
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, as co-editor for the journal Seismograf Peer, and as founding editor of the book series Sound Studies. Together with Jennifer Stoever and Michael Bull, he is currently working on The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, a three-volume collection of over 150 articles by leading scholars and artists on the past, present and various possible futures of the field.
His research moves between a cultural history of the senses, sound in popular culture and the anthropology of media. He is a founding member of the European Sound Studies Association. Between 2012-2018 he was an associated investigator at the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung: an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; 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 first European 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, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as senior fellow at CINEPOETICS at the Freie Universität Berlin. He served as a curator for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and he produced radio features for Deutschlandradio Kultur. He writes for Merkur, Seismograf, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Positionen, Texte zur Kunst, taz - die tageszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, der freitag.
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Portrait: „For Holger Schulze, immersive listening is his soundtrack to everyday life“ (2019)
Interviews: Hordan sanser vi lyd? (DR P4 2023), Holger Schulze und sein Sound Studies Lab (SWR2 radio 2022), The Sonic Persona and The Servant Class (Podcast SOUNDS ABSURD 2022), "Schallwaffen sind im Grundsatz antidemokratisch" (Philosophie Magazin 2021), "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)
Recent media contributions: The Seduction of Meme Music (Norient 2021), The Sound Politics of Videocalls (Norient 2020), The hands just carry on by themselves (Seismograf 2020), The Sound of Corona (Passive/Aggressive 2020)
Join our biweekly Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies (on Zoom)!
More informations on the website of the Sound Studies Lab
Currently supervising: the artistic PhD project Communicating Vessels by Jenny Gräf Sheppard (funded 2020-23 by a NovoNordisk Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship), the PhD project Sounding the Dissolution by Giada Dalla Bontà (funded 2021-24 by an IKK PhD grant), the postdoc project "Making Listening Audible" by Lílian Campesato (funded 2025-27 by the ERC’s Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions).
Co-supervisor of the artistic PhD project "The Body as the Site for Composition" by Ragnhild May (funded 2023-26 by a NovoNordisk Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship) and the PhD project "Genre Practice In Online Left-Field Music Communities On TikTok" by Anders Bach (funded 2023-26 by an IKK PhD grant).
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Areas of teaching and supervision:
sound studies, popular music, sound design, sound art, game sound, music culture, aural architecture, music video, sensory studies, anthropology of sound.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
Mikkel Bogh (Organizer), Maibritt Borgen (Organizer), Rune Gade (Organizer) & Holger Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Stefanie Heine (Organizer) & Holger Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Holger Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Holger Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Holger Schulze (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Holger Hans Schulze (Organizer) & Morten Michelsen (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Holger Hans Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Holger Hans Schulze (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
30/09/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
06/03/2021 → 30/12/2021
4 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
06/01/2021 → 21/09/2023
5 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
02/06/2020 → 25/11/2021
5 items of Media coverage, 3 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
24/04/2020 → 03/03/2021
4 items of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
Holger Schulze & Marcus S. Kleiner
16/12/2017 → 01/09/2020
8 items of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
08/01/2017 → 09/06/2021
7 items of Media coverage, 4 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
29/01/2015 → 01/04/2021
12 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media