Karin Bijsterveld

Karin Bijsterveld is historian and professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012) and co-editor of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009). Three recent publications are the edited volume Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural...See more

Karin Bijsterveld is historian and professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012) and co-editor of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009). Three recent publications are the edited volume Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013), the monograph Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel (2014), and a special issue on Auditory History guest edited for The Public Historian (2015). See less