Holger Schulze

Holger Schulze, born 1970 in Baden-Baden/Germany, is full professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab.

His research focus is the cultural history of the senses, sound in popular culture and the anthropology of media. He was invited visiting professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, at the Berlin University of the Arts, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

He was associated investigator at the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and vice chair of the European Sound Studies Association. He served as curator for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, is founding editor of the book series Sound Studies and produced radio features for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He writes for Merkur, Seismograf, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Positionen.

Recent book publications: Sound as Popular Culture (2016, ed.), The Sonic Persona (2018), Sound Works (2019).