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Interdisciplinary Research on Modes of Listening to Music and Sound

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Theoretical reasoning and empirical research on modes of listening exhibits a long tradition within musicology, sound studies and cultural sociology. However, in spite of the importance of the auditory domain in everyday media consumption and the similarity of theoretical and methodological challenges, listening modes have found only minor interest in empirical communication science until now. This chapter will therefore give a comprehensive introduction to the existing theoretical and empirical research strands, which nowadays appear to converge into a multi-layered, integrative perspective on listening modes. The chapter closes by discussing whether the current “embodied view” on modes and strategies of engaging with a (largely mediated) sonic world could also inspire communication research concerned with everyday strategies and modes of media use beyond the auditory domain.

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Lepa, S. (2020). Interdisciplinary Research on Modes of Listening to Music and Sound. In: Krämer, B., Frey, F. (eds) How We Use the Media . Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41313-2_6

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