Sanne Krogh Groth

Kultursociologi og kulturstudier placerer sig i mellemrummet mellem samfundsvidenskab og humaniora og beskæftiger sig med kulturelle fænomener af enhver slags: med kunst og subkultur, med æstetik og sociale omgangsformer, med følelsernes kultur, med seksualitetens kultur, med oplevelsen af byens rum og med byudvikling, og i det hele taget med grundlæggende perspektiver på sammenhængen mellem samfund, kultur, magt og politik. Kultursociologien udgør en kernedisciplin i sociologien, og med opblomstringen af humanistiske kulturstudieuddannelser på en række danske universiteter de senere årtier er også store dele af de humanistiske fag orienteret i en kulturteoretisk og sociologisk retning. Denne bog giver en autoritativ indføring i klassiske og nyere tendenser, tænkere og teorier i kultursociologi og kulturteori i tre dele: Ny teori, som for en stor del præsenteres for første gang på dansk Klassiske og nyklassiske teorier, som på forskellige måder tegner fagets tradition Temaer og begreber, der indkredser de vigtigste områder, som kultursociologien og kulturteorien beskæftiger sig med. Bogen vil kunne fungere som en vigtig støtte i arbejdet med kultursociologiske eller kulturteoretiske originaltekster både for undervisere og studerende på de højere læreanstalter. Men den henvender sig også til den ”kulturarbejdende” eller blot kulturinteresserede læser uden for universitetet, som gerne vil have udvidet eller opdateret sin teoretiske horisont.

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.

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.

This book is the first to explore the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. The renowned studio EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international center for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world's most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-project shaped in accordance to the social democratic cultural policy of the time. This enabled the project to achieve continuous financial support, e.g., to purchase computers in 1969. Today EMS holds events and owns six studios and a library archive with a unique collection of books on electroacoustic music and sound art. The book includes a CD with diverse samples from EMS productions