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Aditi: The Living Arts of India. 1985. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Appadurai, Arjun, ed. 1986. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Atkinson, Niall. 2016. The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life. University Park: The Pennsylvania University Press.

Benamou, Marc. 2010. Rasa: Affect and Interaction in Javanese Musical Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bohlman, Philip V. 2005. “Music and Religion in India.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion, 6278–87. London: Macmillan.

Brown, Bill. 2015. Other Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

______, ed. Things. 2004. Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Byl, Julia. 2014. Antiphonal Histories: Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Chakrabarti, Arindam, ed. 2016. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Bloomsbury Academic.

Classen, C. 1993. Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures. London; New York: Routledge.

Diamond, Beverley, M. Sam Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen. 1994. Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Drobnick, Jim. 2004, “Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture” in David Howes, ed. 2004, Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader. Oxford: Berg.

Erguner, Kudsi. 2005. Journeys of a Sufi Musician. London: Saqi Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1994. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage. (orig. publ. 1966 and 1969) 

Hawley, John C., ed. 2008. India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Howes, David. 2006. “Scent, Sound and Synesthesia: Intersensoriality and Material Culture Theory” in Christopher Tilley, et al (eds.), Handbook of Material Culture, London: Sage.

Klotz, Sebastian, Philip V. Bohlman, and Lars-Christian Koch, eds. 2018. Sounding Cities: Auditory Transformations in Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata. Berlin: LIT Verlag.

Koch, Lars-Christian. 2012. My Heart Sings: Die Lieder Rabindranath Tagore zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Berlin: LIT Verlag.

MacGregor, Neil. 2013. A History of the World in 100 Objects. New York: Penguin. 

Nelson, Kristina. 2001. The Art of Reciting the Qur'an. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press.

Nooshin, Laudan. 2009. 'Tomorrow is Ours': Re-Imagining Nation, Performing Youth in the New Iranian Pop Music." In Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Ed. by Laudan Nooshin. London: Ashgate Press.

al-Nuewayri, Shihab al-Din. 2016. The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World. Trans. by Elias Muhanna. New York: Penguin.

Orhan, Pamuk. 2009. The Museum of Innocence. Trans. by Maureen Freely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 

Ring, Laura A. 2006. Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Rubiés, Joan Pau. 2000. Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Schoer, Hein. 2014. The Sounding Museum: Four Worlds, Cultural Soundscape Composition and Trans-Cultural Communication. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. (Edition Museum) 

Simon, Artur, ed. 2000. Das Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv 1900–2000: Sammlungen der traditionellen Musik der Welt. Berlin: VWB – Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

Schultz, Anna. 2013. Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schultz, Anna. 2016. "The Afterlives of Publishing: Christian Texts for Indian Jewish Song." Acta Musicologica 88, 1: 63–86.

Schwartz, Susan L. 2004. Rasa: Performing the Divine in India. New York: Columbia University Press.

Seastrand, Anna. 2013. Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University.

Stokes, Martin. 2009. “Abd al-Halim's Microphone.” in L. Nooshin, ed. Music and the Play of Power: Music, Politics, and Ideology in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. London: Ashgate Press.

Stokes, Martin. 2002. “Silver Sounds in the Inner Citadel': Reflections on Musicology and Islam.” In H Donnan (Ed.) Interpreting Islam, 167-189. London: Sage Press.

Topp Fargion, Janet. 2014. Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century: A Story of “old Is Gold” and Flying Spirits. Farnham: Ashgate.

Wade, Bonnie. 1998. Imagining Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. University of Chicago Press.

Ziegler, Susanne. 2006. Die Wachszylinder des Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Berlin: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.