Sound and the Everyday in Qualitative Research

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ID2385227
AuthorsTom Hall (0000-0002-9001-6684, Cardiff University), Brett Lashua (0000-0002-1526-3239, Cardiff University), Amanda Coffey (0000-0001-8930-0461, Cardiff University)
Year2008
Volume14
Issue6
Pages1019-1040
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800407312054
OpenAlexW2058896553
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited20

In this article, a constitutive aspect of the everyday world is attended to, which is too often absent or suppressed in social scientific accounts of social life: noise. A question is raised as to how social science has addressed the question of noise, through a reconsideration of sound and the everyday. Conventional "good practice" for the organization and conduct of research interviews is compared with alternative approaches more open to the space of everyday sounds, and the practice of soundwalking-the mobile exploration of (local) space and sounds-is offered as a productive context for the creative disturbance of the conventional interview. In closing, some of the possibilities of noise as these have been brought home to us in our own research with young people in noisy, everyday settings are set out

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Closing (real estate · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Everyday life · Noise (video · Performance art · Political science · Qualitative research · Social practice · Social research · Social science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Computer Science · History · Music History and Culture · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Artificial Intelligence

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