Sirens

With sirens, both technological and mythical, sound studies pioneer and cultural theorist Michael Bull mashes up genre and periodization, fact and fiction, pop and classical, sound and silence, in this wonderful little book. The siren call, when rendered through the ear of sound studies, leads to the retelling of the part played by sirens in the stories of Homer, Kafka and Vonnegut - and there are even bit parts for Friedrich Kittler, Nancy Sinatra and Stormy Daniels. Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, USA, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (with Karin Bijsterveld, 2012)