Audio Paper (The Study of Sound) - Softcover

Groth, Sanne Krogh; Östersjö, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501393340 ISBN 13: 9781501393341

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

Synopsis

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper.

The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing this new format, the book invites scholars to work in a publication format that integrates aesthetic perspectives and technological components in an academic work. This text builds on the authors' experience developing the audio paper and newly collected insights from researchers who have been involved in the production of audio papers over the past five years.

By providing you with historical perspectives, ranging from early radio production to present day podcasts, the audio paper is contextualized as a technologically driven publication format, with a grounding in auditory culture and a theoretical framework. Through a structural analysis of published audio papers, the authors seek a more robust understanding of the methods for analysis as well as the dramaturgical means employed. For the future development of the audio paper, the book proposes a series of directions, underlining how the audio paper holds a potential to become a transgressive intervention in academic publishing and a vehicle for new formats for thinking and doing research.

About this title

About the Authors

Sanne Krogh Groth is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lund University, Sweden. She was Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Seismograf from 2011-2019, and from 2016 -, founder and editor of Seismograf Peer. She is author of the book Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014), co-author of the book Audio Paper (2026), and co-editor of Negotiation Noise (2021) and Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2022). She is currently conducting field-based research on experimental music and de-colonial aesthetics in Indonesia.

Stefan Östersjö is chaired professor of music performance at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and author of Listening to the Other (2020).

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501393340
• ISBN 13: 9781501393341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168