Audio Paper
Using Sound to Create New Approaches to Research
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Milena Droumeva
Chapter 1: Introduction. Welcome to the audio paper
A Manifesto for Audio Papers, and their subsequent manifestations
Design of the book
Chapter 2: Sonic argumentation. Predecessors and aesthetic neighbours
Why not just call it a podcast?
Podcast, platformization and the politics of publishing
From radio to podcast
Predecessors and aesthetic neighbours of the audio paper
Postcolonial trouble and ethics of sound
Chapter 3: Multimodal production of knowledge. Listening to audio papers
Voice
Sound
Music
Chapter 4: Collaboration and production. Listening to Authors
Embodied and situated approaches
Sound-based and collaborative methods
Educational application
Chapter 5: A theatre of embodied listening
A theatre of the mind? Radio drama, the audio paper and embodied listening
Temporal scales: Towards a dramaturgy of the audio paper
The audio paper as a “theatre of embodied listening”
The audio paper in a sound-based scholarship
References
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781501393334 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | The Study of Sound |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























