Sound Research For Troubling Times 3rd Edition Jessie L Beier by Jessie L. Beier 9783031694059, 3031694058 instant download after payment.

This book brings together interdisciplinary voices from fields such as education, communication studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, and music therapy through a common interest in how sound reverberates throughout research(-creation)2 practices today. The use of “sound research” here is purposefully slippery. At one register, we understand the term to refer to those modes and methods of research that deploy sound in some way—materially or conceptually—to explore research questions and/or develop experimental inquiries. At another register, one that slips into an alternative etymological lineage of the word sound,3 we understand “sound research” as research that has been deemed legitimate, reliable, trustworthy, worthwhile—what is considered good research. Our interest here is not just in the “soundness”—stability, reliability, and validity—of research(-creation), but also how it can be unsound—unfixed, uncertain, unreliable, and invalid. We pose these latter considerations as a playful, but also earnest, intervention in relation to our own work as researchers invested in creative and experimental approaches. With these slippery interests in mind, sound research is explored in this book as a site to grapple with how present conditions, including conditions for research, are always contingent—always already in trouble—and thus also subject to change both conceptually and materially.