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Zusatztext [The book], because of its vast scope -- I have only scratched the surface of its richness in this review -- may be very helpful in deciding if, and if so when, sonic method may be best suited to act as the "what" in research projects that in some way involve sound. Informationen zum Autor Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. His many authored books include Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience (Routledge, 2007). He is editor of the Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018) and The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2003, and 2016), and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a founding editor of the journals, The Senses and Society and Sound Studies . Marcel Cobussen is Professor of Auditory Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is author of Engaging With Everyday Sounds (2022), The Field of Musical Improvisation (2017), Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality through Music (2008), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art (2016). Vorwort An interdisciplinary overview of the variety of sonic methodologies used by sound scholars and artists based on contemporary theories and empirical analyses Zusammenfassung The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken both by those who specialize in sound and by others who wish to include sound as an intrinsic and indispensable element in their research. This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. It brings together 49 specially commissioned chapters that ask a wide range of questions including; how can sound be used in current academic disciplines? Is sound as a methodological tool indispensable for Sound Studies and what can sound artists contribute to the discourse on methodology in Sound Studies? The editors also present 3 original chapters that work as provocative ‘sonic methodological interventions’ prefacing the 3 sections of the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction (Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen) Section One: Disciplines, Methodologies, Epistemologies. 1. Introduction to Section 1: Sonic Forms and the Temporalities of Silence (Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK) 2. Sonic Methodologies in Anthropology ( Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, University of Victoria, Canada) 3. Sonic Methodologies by Way of Deconstruction (Naomi Waltham-Smith, University of Warwick, UK) 4. Nature’s Music: Sonic Methodologies in the Study of Environmental Biology (Wouter Halfwerk, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 5. Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter ( James G. Mansell, University of Nottingham, UK) 6. Sonic Methodologies in Urban Studies ( Christabel Stirling, University of Oxford, UK) 7. Sound and Pedagogy: Taking Podcasting into the Classroom ( Neil Verma. Northwestern University, USA) 8. Sonic Methodologies in Literature ( Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama, USA) 9. Sonic Materialism and/as Method (Tyler Shoemaker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Sonic M...
