Listening, Readings and Films · Lecture Notes
MIT OpenCourseWare
The Anthropology of Sound
Art: Didier Descouens, 1655 - Frontispiece of Museum Wormiani Historia, Taken on… · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Stefan Helmreich
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 1 other file · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.360J The Anthropology of Sound, Spring 2008, Prof. Stefan Helmreich — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
Listening, Readings and Films · Lecture Notes
Lecture 2: Thinking about sound
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Lecture 3: Acoustemologies
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Lecture 4: Soundscapes Soundwalk at MIT
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Lecture 5: Voices
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Lecture 6: Telephones and radio Soundscapes, revisited through sound sculpture
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Lecture 7: Phonograph and gramophone records, compact discs, MP3s
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Lecture 8: Sound, culture, property
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Lecture 9: A political economy of sound and noise
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Lecture 10: The sound of music
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Lecture 11: Sonic publics
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Lecture 12: Styles of silence
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Lecture 13: The sounds of science
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Lecture 14: Class presentations of sonic communities paper
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Stefan Helmreich, 21A.360J The Anthropology of Sound, Spring 2008.
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