Encounters with Sound Environments : Olle Stenbäck, Den ofrivilliga lyssnaren. Möten med butiksmusik. Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2016. 190 pp. Ill. English summary. Diss. ISBN 978-91-97535380.

• Everyday life creates a variety of involuntarily listening for many of us. It can be the fan system in the office or school, the cars driving by outside our window, the old dishwasher in our kitchen, or the in-store music in the city. Many times we do not notice the sound, instead it is perceived as a background sound that blends into the place we are a part of. It is only when the fan stops or we close the window that we feel relief at how nice silence feels in our bodies. In Olle Stenbäck’s dissertation Den ofrivillige lyssnaren (“The involuntary listener: Encounters with in-store music”) this kind of involuntarily listening serves as the methodological input for how to understand and critically investigate what can be called sound environments and individual listening in a cultural context. Stenbäck thereby follows a growing ethnological interest in studying sound and sound environments as a methodological opening to different cultural processes. 

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HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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sound environment

music

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