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Sound and the Everyday in Qualitative Research

Tom Hall

Cardiff University, Wales, HallTA{at}cf.ac.uk

Brett Lashua

Cardiff University, Wales

Amanda Coffey

Cardiff University, Wales

In this article, a constitutive aspect of the everyday world is attended to, which is too often absent or suppressed in social scientific accounts of social life: noise. A question is raised as to how social science has addressed the question of noise, through a reconsideration of sound and the everyday. Conventional "good practice" for the organization and conduct of research interviews is compared with alternative approaches more open to the space of everyday sounds, and the practice of soundwalking—the mobile exploration of (local) space and sounds—is offered as a productive context for the creative disturbance of the conventional interview. In closing, some of the possibilities of noise as these have been brought home to us in our own research with young people in noisy, everyday settings are set out.

Key Words: noise • the everyday • interviews • soundwalking

This version was published on September 1, 2008

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 6, 1019-1040 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800407312054
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