Holger Schulze

Holger Schulze is full professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. His research moves between a cultural history of the senses, sound in popular culture and the anthropology of media. Currently he 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). He was visiting professor at the Musashino Art University Tokyo, at the University of New South Wales Sydney, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is founding editor of the book series Sound Studies, produced radio features for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and collaborated with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. He writes for Merkur, Seismograf, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Positionen. Publications include: Sonic Fiction (2021), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2020, co-ed.), The Sonic Persona (2018), Sound as Popular Culture (2016, co-ed.).

About Holger Schulze

By Holger Schulze

  • essay
    12.06.2020

    The hands just carry on by themselves

    Igor Levit. © Felix Broede/Sony Classical
    Two weeks ago, the German pianist Igor Levit took on an iconic marathon piece, fundamentally changing his own conditions as well as the listener’s.
    By Holger Schulze
  • essay
    11.07.2018

    Lullabies and memory loss

    © Alexander Banck-Petersen
    Attending a concert – what’s it all about? In this essay Professor Holger Schulze takes us through his listening experience at Klang Festival in Copenhagen.
    By Holger Schulze
  • PEER article
    30.08.2016

    Idiosyncrasy as Method

    Holger Schulze’s keynote presentation asking for individual idiosyncrasies as parts of research methodologies.
    By Holger Schulze
  • review
    21.08.2015

    Sonic Triangulations

    Holger Schulze reviews Jochen Bonz' new book "Alltagsklänge" - an exemplary sonic ethnography, where the interpretational research habitus can be "regarded as a core element in an emerging cultural anthropology of sound and of listening".
    By Holger Schulze
  • review
    14.04.2015

    The Body of the Voice

    "Brandon LaBelle's volume is a perfect start and an ideal reference point for journeys into artistic research on the voice." Holger Schulze reviews LaBelle's recent book: Lexicon of the Mouth
    By Holger Schulze