How the World Listens: The Human Relationship with Sound across the World [Paperback]

CONTENTS

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

Origins and precedent

The habitus

Sociocultural theory

Asking the right questions

A (quite) brief review of sound theory & perspectives

What is sound?

Sound as a soundwave

Sound as an object or an event (or both [&] or neither)

Extending sound theory even further

Beyond the acoustic definition

What is listening and how is sound controlled?

Typologies of listening

The function of sound

Acoustic ecology

Chapter One summary: questions begetting questions

The madness, the methodology, and the method

The chain of study design, and its four links

The research onion

Approaching ethnography

Qualitative v. quantitative

The function and values of ethnography (and when to use it)

Some key trends in ethnography

Autoethnography

Is ethnography the right choice for studying sound?

Making sense of sound studies

Ethnomusicology, for a bit of history

Does sound studies actually study sound?

Approaching sound studies

So, you want to do some interviews?

When and how to use an interview

The ethnographicl8